William Howard Taft (1857–1930) American politician, 27th President of the United States (in office from 1909 to 1913)
Address at the Hotel Fairmont in San Francisco (6 October 1909).
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
William Howard Taft (1857–1930) American politician, 27th President of the United States (in office from 1909 to 1913)
Address at the Hotel Fairmont in San Francisco (6 October 1909).
“How about we give each other everything we can and not blame each other for what we can’t.”
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: The Sweetest Thing
Alexander Ovechkin (1985) Russian ice hockey player
Associated Press (June 13, 2008) "Clean Sweep - Capitals' Sensation, Ovechkin, Captures Hart and Pearson", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, p. D-6.
Hu Jintao (1942) former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
2000s, White House speech (2006)
Bob Black book The Abolition of Work
The Abolition of Work (1985)
Context: No one can say what would result from unleashing the creative power stultified by work. Anything can happen. The tiresome debater's problem of freedom vs. necessity, with its theological overtones, resolves itself practically once the production of use-values is co-extensive with the consumption of delightful play activity. Life will become a game, or rather many games, but not—as it is now — a zero/sum game. An optimal sexual encounter is the paradigm of productive play. The participants potentiate each other's pleasures, nobody keeps score, and everybody wins. The more you give, the more you get. In the ludic life, the best of sex will diffuse into the better part of daily life. Generalized play leads to the libidinization of life. Sex, in turn, can become less urgent and desperate, more playful.
If we play our cards right, we can all get more out of life than we put into it; but only if we play for keeps.
No one should ever work.
Workers of the world... relax! </center
“When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.”
Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832) French economist and businessman
Source: A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Book III, On Consumption, Chapter VI, Section II, p. 429