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"Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations." »Herbert Spencer
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"In the age of knowledge and global socioeconomic exchange, goodwill and trade relations are far important to national prosperity and stability than land or military power. Socioeconomic systems that are built on exclusive ideologies, religious or ethnic purities are breeding grounds for extremism and will eventually lead to civil and international conflicts. Those countries must change or fail." »Med Jones
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"In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor." »Victor Hugo
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"labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor." »Ulysses S. Grant
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"A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing." »Alexander Hamilton
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"Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel." »William Hazlitt
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"If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction." »Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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"The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last...
The great battle of our time." »J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
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"We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Elaine Dickinson There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane" »Airplane
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"God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School board" »Mark Twain
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"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men." »Zora Neale Hurston
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"Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations." »Saint Augustine
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"Everything you do or say is public relations." »Unknown
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"No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations." »Cornelius Tacitus
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"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board." »Henry David Thoreau, "Walden," the Conclusion
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"From a psychological point of view, when people go under pressure in life, be it economically or otherwise, they seek support from the people closest to them, usually religious or ethnic groups. They also start blaming other groups who have more control over the national resources. If the gap of power is wide, this will eventually create deep divisions in the nation. The divisions can take on new forms of conflict such as class warfare, ethnic, religious, political unrest and sometime civil war. The only effective protection against national divisions is an open socioeconomic system with a large and growing middle class" »Med Jones
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"Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends." »Jacques Delille
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"It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations." »Charles Dickens, Bleak House
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"I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all." »Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
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"The four columns of success are motivation, education, actions and relations" »Med Jones
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"The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance." »Thomas Huxley
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"The job of buildings is to improve human relations architecture must ease them, not make them worse." »Ralph Erskine
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"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers." »Daniel J. Boorstin
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"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." »Richard Feynman
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"It is not easy to stop the fire when the water is at a distance; friends at hand are better than relations afar off." »Chinese
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"Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all." »Allan K. Chalmers
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"All wealth is the product of labor." »John Locke
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"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done." »Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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