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• I believe that what works for the consumer is to be able to determine what they can pay -- even if it is nothing. (Just joking.) Unfortunately, so many depend on credit for living expenses, and the lower payments helped them in the immediate term. I am OK with that. For those who want their minimum to be more, you don't have to wait on your credit issuer to increase the payment -- do it on your own. For others, at this time, I think it's a horrible idea.

  Trina

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

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• The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.

  Frederick Sommer

  Dimensions, Elegance, Structure

  Frederick Sommer (1984). “Sommer: Words”

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• Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.

  Jacques Maritain

  Men, Vain, Philosophic

  Jacques Maritain (1973). “Integral humanism; temporal and spiritual problems of a new Christendom”

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• Of course, such judicial misconstruction theoretically can be cured by constitutional amendment. But the period of gestation of a constitutional amendment, or of any law reform, is reckoned in decades usually; in years, at least. And, after all, as the Court itself asserted in overruling the minimum-wage cases, it may not be the Constitution that was at fault.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Gestation Period, Years, Law

  "The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy: A Study in Crisis in American Power Politics". Book by Robert H. Jackson, p. 297, 1941.

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• A culture truly changes only when a new way of operating has been shown to succeed over some minimum period of time.

  John P. Kotter

  Culture, Way, Succeed

  John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2015). “Successful Organizational Change: The Kotter-Cohen Collection (2 Books)”, p.174, Harvard Business Review Press

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• The minimum necessary structuring ingredient of every ideology is to distance itself from another ideology, to denounce its other as ideology.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Distance, Ingredients, Ideology

  Interview with Dianna Dilworth, www.believermag.com. July 2004.

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• My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Ambition, Support, Important

  "Architect of Optimism". Interview with Angel Gurria-Quintana, www.ft.com. April 13, 2007.

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• At a minimum if we can just have enough distribution of clout in society so it isn't run by a tiny minority, then at the very least it gives us some room to breathe.

  Jaron Lanier

  Running, Giving, Minorities

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• Technically speaking, since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents,they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. These disruptions can, with minimum expense, have considerably destructive consequences. Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Opportunity, Goal, Cynical

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror". Book by Giovanna Borradori, Jacques Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, 2003.

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• What we need to do is raise the minimum wage. We also need to hold onto equal pay. Women work for 76 cents on the dollar for the same work that men do. That's not right in America.

  John F. Kerry

  Men, Equal Pay, America

  "Bush, Kerry debate domestic policies". The debate at Arizona State University, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2004.

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• Since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear ... there is absolutely no doubt that every affect in the universe can be explained satisfactorily from final causes, by the aid of the method of maxima and minima, as it can be from the effective causes themselves ... Of course, when the effective causes are too obscure, but the final causes are readily ascertained, the problem is commonly solved by the indirect method.

  Leonhard Euler

  Wise, Perfect, Doubt

  "A method for finding curved lines enjoying properties of maximum or minimum, or solution of isoperimetric problems in the broadest accepted sense". Book by Leonhard Euler, 1744.

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• Anarchism is that political philosophy which advocates the maximization of individual responsibility and the reduction of concentrated power regal, dictatorial, parliamentary: the institutions which go loosely by the name of "government" to a vanishing minimum.

  Alex Comfort

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Government

  In the Preface of "People Without Government" by Harold Barclay, p. 7, 1982.

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• Is a man's body at stake? Any time a man is asked to work to pay child support, he is using his body, his time, his life - not for nine months, but for a minimum of 18 to 21 years. So the motto of the feminist with integrity is, 'It's a woman's and man's right to choose because it is a woman's and man's body at stake.'

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Integrity, Men

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously. "Rubbish," said the Master. "The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant .

  Anthony de Mello

  Cutting, Expression, Law

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• I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent.

  Milton Friedman

  Book, Law, Minimum Wage

  Milton Friedman (1972). “An economist's protest: columns in political economy”

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• We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.

  J. L. Austin

  Truth Is, Obsessed, Illusory

  "Philosophical Papers" by J. L. Austin, James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, 3rd ed., New York: Oxford, (p. 130), 1979.

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• When I was a kid, the punishment I disliked the most was writing sentences. My mother loved to make me record my transgressions--always a minimum of five hundred times--and she even bought special spiral notebooks for me to fill up.... No matter how many notebooks I went through, there was always another one waiting in the kitchen drawer.

  Clay Aiken

  Notebook, Mother, Writing

  Clay Aiken, Allison Glock (2004). “Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life”, p.10, Random House

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• What I used to respect was not really aristocracy, but a set of personal qualities which aristocracy then developed better than any other system . . . a set of qualities, however, whose merit lay only in a psychology of non-calculative, non-competitive disinterestedness, truthfulness, courage, and generosity fostered by good education, minimum economic stress, and assumed position, AND JUST AS ACHIEVABLE THROUGH SOCIALISM AS THROUGH ARISTOCRACY.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Stress, Personal Qualities, Generosity

  Letter to C.L. Moore (c. mid-October 1936), in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, (p. 566), 1996.

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• The success of family welfare depends on giving women complete freedom with their lives. The need of the hour is that people should plan their families as per their convenience and get the bare minimum health facilities.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Giving, People, Needs

  "Celebration, introspection as India's billionth citizen is born". www.cnn.com. May 12, 2000.

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• What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to reach 20 pages or you have to have so many slides or whatever. Then you get out in the real world and you think, 'I have to have a minimum of 20 pages and 50 slides.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Real, School, Thinking

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• Any way you slice it, increasing the minimum wage in Michigan... is likely to make it more difficult for the working poor to find jobs. ...those who most need the work will have a harder time finding it.

  Paul Kersey

  Jobs, Way, Needs

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• In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Individual Choice, Choices, Abortion

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• If negative auric vibrations are not kept to a minimum by using psychic shielding techniques, and if they aren't cleansed from our subtle body through meditation, they will accumulate and eventually become very toxic.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Meditation, Technique

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• The internal and external ethics of an organization must be the same; you cannot talk about minimum wages for poor people and not pay minimum wages to your own workers.

  Aruna Roy

  Organization, People, Wages

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• I eat excellent bread, clean meat, good crisp veggies, organic fruits and nice wine and cheese. It is one of the things I am truly grateful for. I'm not kidding. You can't ask a single mother of three working two jobs for minimum wage to eat that way. I am lucky.

  Rachael Taylor

  Mother, Jobs, Nice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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