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• Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less likely than other jobs to provide health benefits.

  David Rolf

  Jobs, Self, Income

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The culture war in America can best be described by the battle between workin' hard, playin' hard s - tkickers that bust our ass to make America strong by earning our own way and kickin' maximum ass versus soulless weaklings who have been brainwashed into thinking they are entitled to a free ride.

  Ted Nugent

  Strong, War, Thinking

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• When I say the economy is shrinking, it's the economy of the 99%, the people who have to work for a living and depend on earning money for what they can spend. The 1% makes its money basically by lending out their money to the 99%, on charging interest and speculating. So the stock market's doubled, the bond market's gone way up, and the 1% are earning more money than ever before, but the 99% are not. They're having to pay the 1%.

  Michael Hudson

  People, Shrinking, Gone

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In the West, it is the opposite, like you are using these practices [meditation and yoga ] to further your ego by being more productive, being more this, and getting more out of your work and earning more money. In the East, the whole idea is that you are dissolving your essence through these practices.

  Karan Bajaj

  Yoga, Essence, Opposites

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I feel that I've always done things the hard way, and I've always felt a lot of pride in earning everything that I have.

  Christine Evangelista

  Pride, Done, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart from its utility, either to themselves in earning a living, or to the world through its outcome.

  Bertrand Russell

  Work, Done, World

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• We have an idea that if something we're doing isn't actually earning money, or spending it, then it's completely worthless. But if you start to work less, you can actually start to give more to society, but on a local level.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Ideas, Giving, Levels

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• I don't believe that art and politics or social issues must be separated. In writing about marriage, for example, money can be a big factor, and money is linked to earning, and earning is influenced by politics.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Art, Believe, Writing

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Continental Divides". Interview with Joseph Klarl, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.

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• Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to the early mass market magazine writers earning a half cent a word for their fiction. They had to use every adjective, verb and adverb in the English language to add word count to stories in order to feed and support families.

  Tom Johnson

  Writing, Order, Purple

  Source: ravenswoodpublishing.blogspot.com

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• I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.

  Pierre Soulages

  Artist, People, Waste

  Interview with Zoe Stillpass, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 7, 2014.

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• When I got my statement in January, I was worth $2.2 billion. Then I got another statement in August that said I was worth $3.2 billion. So I figure it's only nine months' earnings, who cares?

  Ted Turner

  August, Care, Nine

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• As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

  John Gray

  Education, Money, Rewards

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• No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

  Bobby Scott

  Education, Opportunity, College

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• Live comedy's a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You're only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.

  Bill Bailey

  Gigs, Lasts, Comedy

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things. And all of a sudden, not just business thrives, but small business thrives.

  Nick Hanauer

  Mom, Mother, Flower

  "'Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan': Talking to a Billionaire About Class War". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. June 16, 2015.

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• If you look at the balance sheet, the US is heavily in debt. If you look at the income account - the amount of interest the US pays abroad - it is almost exactly equal to the amount of interest that it receives from abroad. American assets held abroad are earning a higher rate of return than foreign assets held here.

  Milton Friedman

  Balance, Income, Looks

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Selfish, Sake, Journalism

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Gary Player and others have said all of us should all give Arnold Palmer a percentage of our earnings because without you there would be no television contracts and without you it wouldn't be as good for anyone.

  Charlie Rose

  Player, Giving, Would Be

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• It is said that the Negro is ignorant. But why is he ignorant? It comes with ill grace from a man who has put out my eyes to makea parade of my blindness,--to reproach me for my poverty when he has wronged me of my money.... If he is poor, what has become of the money he has been earning for the last two hundred and fifty years? Years ago it was said cotton fights and cotton conquers for American slavery. The Negro helped build up that great cotton power in the South, and in the North his sigh was in the whir of its machinery, and his blood and tears upon the warp and woof of its manufactures.

  Frances Harper

  Eye, Fighting, Men

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• Paul Revere earned his living as a silversmith. But what do we remember him for? His volunteer work. All activism is volunteering in that it's done above and beyond earning a living and deals with what people really care passionately about. Remember, no one gets paid to rebel. All revolutions start with volunteers.

  Susan J. Ellis

  Helping Others, People, Volunteer

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• It is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good parent.' That's all very well. But you must do something more.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Volunteer, Parent, Support

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• Avoid greed and fear. These are the investor's Achilles heels. Keeping all your money in the bank earning 3% interest is just as foolish as dumping your entire savings into the market thinking you'll make a quick buck.

  Nancy Dunnan

  Thinking, Greed, Bucks

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• If Americans are working harder than ever earning less than they once did, our government and our leaders should step up, offer a plan, fix what's wrong -- or they should step aside, the recovery has been everywhere but in the family paychecks. The American Dream has become a mirage for far too many.

  Jeb Bush

  Dream, Recovery, Government

  "Jeb's primary strategy: Run a general election campaign" by Adam P. Levy, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2015.

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• Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden
  on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.

  Harriet Tubman

  Government, Trying, Naked

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• With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it.

  P. T. Barnum

  Men, Earning It, Young

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.74, Applewood Books

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