"The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor."

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Source : Sir James Mackintosh (1848). “The miscellaneous works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh”, p.429

James Mackintosh

#Wealth Quotes #Labor Quotes #Productive Quotes

“God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.”

Source : William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.507
“The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.”

Source : Benedetto Croce (1941). “History as the Story of Liberty”
“When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.”
“When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony.”
“I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging ditches or something. Get a life. You'll learn a lot more, and you won't write a lot of rotten poetry.”
“[On George H.W. Bush:] A man who wishes to lead the Western world should be able to find the right words, string them together in coherent sentences, and steer them to an intelligible conclusion. His sentences have the stuttering start of an old car on a cold morning. They never run smoothly. The only speech part that he has mastered completely is the non sequitur.”
“We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him.”
“I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.”

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