"The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish."

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Source : "Not Even Compulsory Benevolence Will Do". The American Federationist, Volume 24, 1917.

Samuel Gompers

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“We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary, ... Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.”
“The average call me obsessed, the successful call me for advice.”

Source : FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from Feb 20, 2017
“Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.”
“Change - even change meant to improve our lives - creates stress. We can get comfortable with our problems.”
“I feel that true freedom lies within, where I shall never find it.”
“It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.”
“Seeing that my words had done absolutely nothing to pull North from whatever depths he was clinging to, Owain did what came naturally. He smacked North upside the head hard enough to send him sprawling into the window. And when it seemed that North would turn around and return the favor, Owain hit him again, harder.”
“Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him from lurching into the serious or melancholy, unlike Andrew, who had been unable to adopt his cousin's casual attitude to life, and to whom everything seemed so achingly profound, imbed with that absurd solemnity that the transience of of existence conferred upon even the smallest act.”

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