#employed

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

#employed #every #labor #mental #pleasure

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them. ↗

— David Ricardo

#arbitrary #bestowed #capital #commodities #dependent

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship. ↗

— Laura Riding

#already #art #because #called #easiest

Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#going #how #i #jobs #last

I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#branches #capital #commerce #employed #giving

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

#employed #end #instrument #language #means

I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach. ↗

— Bobby Knight

#looking #now #place #right #teach

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#employed #great #keeping #many #now

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#conditions #contexts #easy #employed #expression

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. ↗

— William Whitehead

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