"To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work."

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Source : Samuel Gompers, John McBride, William Green (1915). “The American Federationist”

Samuel Gompers

#Hands Quotes #Choices Quotes #Workers Quotes

“It's extremely hard to build a company with a product that everyone loves, is free and has no business model, and then to innovate a business model. I did that with Kazaa, had half a billion downloads but that wasn't a sustainable business.”
“The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; Our fears fade and lose their grip; Our grief over those who have gone on is diminished; Our desires to press on in spite of the obstacles is rejuvenated... Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in antiphonal voice: 'He is risen, indeed!'”
“I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.”
“Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.”

Source : "Why Men Fall Out of Love : The Secrets They Don't Tell" by Michael French, (p. 142), 2005.
“The church is like any large corporation in one respect. In its early days, either the early church or the early years of Microsoft, you see all kinds of creativity, innovation, invention, people have nothing to lose, they're trying to find what works. Then you wake up and you're a vast enterprise, and it's very hard, when you have all kinds of buildings and structures and hierarchy and so on, to hang on to these very creative impulses that helped you get your great success in the first place. As a church we're going to have to figure a way out from under this.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your soul. Everything will take care of itself.”
“By the age of three ... I was already an addicted reader. I still crave daily immersion in experience other than my own; (it needn't be more pleasant, exciting or illuminating -- merely other) and I still fall into books as though into catalepsy.”
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”

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