#ants

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#desires #feet #like #off #our

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. ↗

— Dogen Zenji

#attain #enlightenment #fences #plants #practice

Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#calling #council #every #every man #grand

We made a demand for the the same wage rates to be paid in the Canadian plants as in the U.S. plants. ↗

— Leonard Woodcock

#demand #made #paid #plants #rates

If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#carry #develop #far #him #his

I get very antsy when I'm not occupied. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#get #i #occupied #very

God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing. ↗

— Willie Aames

#awesome #building #children #gives #god

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#consider #how #man #more #much

There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants. ↗

— Daniel Akaka

#civil #civil servants #crisis #decades #develop

Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#administration #agencies #assist #bureaucracy #civil