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• There won't be some overnight miracle cure. But the measures I take will be sustainable. Our goal is to cease food imports within four years. This will create a minimum of 2 million jobs in agriculture.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Jobs, Years, Agriculture

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

  Henry Rollins

  Minimum Wage, World

  Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. May 12, 2006.

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• Economists may not know much. But we know one thing very well: how to produce surpluses and shortages. Do you want a surplus? Have the government legislate a minimum price that is above the price that would otherwise prevail. That is what we have done at one time or another to produce surpluses of wheat, of sugar, of butter, of many other commodities. Do you want a shortage? Have the government legislate a maximum price that is below the price that would otherwise prevail.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, May, Want

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.237, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• President Obama wants Congress to increase the minimum wage. Believe me, when it comes to doing the minimum for their wage, Congress knows what it's talking about.

  Jay Leno

  Believe, Talking, President

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• What we want to do is raise the bare minimum amount that will give us a large enough microphone to effectively convey our message. Unfortunately, $20 million is critical mass in terms of running an effective campaign in New York.

  David Brenner

  Running, New York, Giving

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• We measure poverty by what I believe is a very, very crude concept. We actually measure poverty by trying to get some kind of an estimate of the minimum expenditures on food that are required to maintain health, multiplying that number by three, and saying that's the level of poverty. And it's a very crude, inaccurate arrangement.

  Milton Friedman

  Believe, Numbers, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Warner Brothers had to hire [a stunt double] and no one thought a child could do this. Billy Friedkin came to me before we were filming [The Exorcist] and said "if you do not do all of this film, the film will be a joke." It's why they stripped the makeup down to the bare minimum, a piece on my chin, piece across my mouth that disfigured my mouth. You have scars here. Take away my eyebrows. It was my real hair. Shampoo was put in it that dried.

  Linda Blair

  Brother, Children, Real

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 17, 2000.

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• I want to applaud those workers rallying to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. I believe strongly that a great nation will not survive when so few have so much and so many have so little. Every worker in America should be given respect, dignity and the wages and benefits they need to take care of their family.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, America, Minimum Wage

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• We are living in the richest country in the history of the world, yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country and millions of people are struggling to put food on the table. It is my absolute conviction that everyone in this country deserves a minimum standard of living and we've got to go forward in the fight to make that happen.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Struggle, Fighting

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 19, 2015.

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• What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place.

  Sarah Moon

  Information, Given, Aim

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• We are in an unusual predicament as a global civilization. The maximum that is politically feasible, even the maximum that is politically imaginable right now, still falls short of the minimum that is scientifically and ecologically necessary.

  Al Gore

  Fall, Civilization, Unusual

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• Reparations - not just aid - should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and - together with other criminal states - for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.

  Noam Chomsky

  Honesty, Military, Together

  "How can America get out of Iraq?" by Noam Chomsky, Jonathan Schell, Howard Zinn, William Polk, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2004.

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• The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions.

  Philip Roth

  Pain, People, Secret

  Philip Roth (2000). “The Human Stain: A Novel”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• [The Center for Industrial Progress'] model allows us to keep conflicts of interest to an absolute minimum as we do our research and writing. As for our relationship with the fossil fuel industry, it's the same as everyone else - they pay for our ideas, we never accept money to voice theirs.

  Alex Epstein

  Writing, Ideas, Voice

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• The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions; the trick to living alone up here, away from all agitating entanglements, allurements, and expectations, apart especially from one's own intensity, is to organize the silence, to think of its mountaintop plenitude as capital, silence as wealth exponentially increasing. The encircling silence as your chosen source of advantage and your only intimate.

  Philip Roth

  Pain, Thinking, People

  Philip Roth (2000). “The Human Stain: A Novel”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Once the country was settled and built, the bosses changed the order from a stack of educated workers to a barrel of minimum wage lottery dreamers.

  Lenny Bruce

  Country, Order, Boss

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• If rather than setting the minimum balance as the lowest possible amount, so we keep people in debt for as long as possible, we raise the minimum payment and encourage people to pay off their credit cards, we're going to make less money, but we're going to have costumers that are more solvent.

  Richard Thaler

  Long, People, Balance

  "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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• Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.

  Sue Grafton

  Minimum Wage, Pay, Seems

  Sue Grafton (2010). “U is for Undertow”, p.65, Pan Macmillan

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• We have but to remember man's natural tendency to satisfy his desires with the minimum of effort to realize how political power will be utilized.

  Frank Chodorov

  Men, Effort, Political

  Frank Chodorov, Charles H. Hamilton (1980). “Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• I think the minimum wage outght to keep pace with inflation. I think the minimum wage is a good thing to have in our country and I think it ought to be updated.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Thinking, Pace

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• Imagine a senator running for president whose positions included halving the military budget, socializing the medical system, re-regulating the communications and electrical industries, establishing a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans, and equalizing funding for all schools regardless of property valuations - and who promised to fire Alan Greenspan, counseled withdrawal from the World Trade Organization, and, for good measure, spoke warmly of adolescent sexual experimentation. That was Barry Goldwater, conservative.

  Rick Perlstein

  Running, Military, Communication

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• People who are really efficient seem to do things easily, with a minimum of effort. In doing so they release maximum power.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  People, Effort, Release

  Norman Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking”, Om Books International

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• If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine.

  Marco Rubio

  People, Machines, Minimum Wage

  Marco Rubio's speech at the Republican Presidential debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2015.

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• Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Parent, Helping, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.298, Courier Corporation

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• A minimum-wage law, a law that prevents employers and employees from entering into mutually beneficial economic exchanges, is as far from a free market or free enterprise as one can get. That's why it causes so much damage and destruction, especially to black teenagers and others whose labor, for one reason or another, is valued by employers at less than the government-established minimum wage.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Teenager, Government, Law

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