Expenses Quotes - Page 10

• Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense...but when foreign aid is carefully guided and targeted at a specific issue, it can and must be effective.

  Kay Granger

  Issues, Investment, Aids

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• If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Happiness, Inner Peace

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• I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.

  Florence Nightingale

  Health, Nursing, Light

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.31, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system of social and political levers and pulleys set up generations ago to continue working on the behalf of whites at other people's expense, whether whites know/like it or not. Racism is an insidious cultural disease. It is so insidious that it doesn't care if you are a white person who likes Black people; it's still going to find a way to infect how you deal with people who don't look like you.

  Scott Woods

  Hate, White, People

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• Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Talent, Sensuality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.94, University of Georgia Press

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• I don't want to get involved in the racial situation at the expense of losing fans. I wouldn't say anything too strong but I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Strong, Say Anything, Want

  "Here They Are Jayne Mansfield". Book by Raymond Strait, 1992.

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• Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to incomprehensible data layouts, the results of obsessing about speed or memory or disk usage at the expense of transparency and simplicity are everywhere. They spawn innumerable bugs and cost millions of man-hours - often, just to get marginal gains in the use of some resource much less expensive than debugging time

  Eric S. Raymond

  Memories, Men, Errors

  Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.23, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.

  Denis Healey

  People, Aviation, Used

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• Problems are gifts from heaven to help every one of us to grow but for those who are to grow the most, heaven bestows rejection.
  
  Today is not bad just because yesterday seemed better.
  
  All the keys to joy can be reduced to these two. Laugh but at no one's expense and love but without expectation.

  Pat McBride

  Love, Yesterday, Keys

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• Loving money at the expense of others is an abuse of power to get wealth.

  Myles Munroe

  Leadership, Abuse, Wealth

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• A vase of flowers or greens will bring even a dull hotel room to life in the most delightful way. The small amount of trouble or expense involved is honestly repaid in real decorative effect. If you find cut flowers too extravagant, stick to the greens. Laurel, rhododendron leaves, huckleberry or pine will all last many days, even weeks.

  Dorothy Draper

  Real, Flower, Cutting

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• When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.

  Rachel Simmons

  Kindness, Generosity, Giving

  "The Curse of the Good Girl". Book by Rachel Simmons, www.today.com. 2009.

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• For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hands, Years, Six

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

  Oliver Herford

  Marriage, Divorce, Way

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• I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Book, Safe Return

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1601, Library of America

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• It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Authority, Increase

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2014). “The Federalist Papers”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.

  Thomas Paine

  Government, Design, Benefits

  Thomas Paine (2016). “Common Sense”, p.4, Coventry House Publishing

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• Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in the sun, the others are put in a denser shade. From the point of view of the whole group there's no gain whatsoever, and perhaps a loss.

  B. F. Skinner

  Loss, Men, Views

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.156, Hackett Publishing

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• Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mean, Loss, Rome

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• For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Years, Democracy

  "For Albright and Rice, Josef Korbel Is Tie that Binds". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, Michele Norris, Guy Raz, www.npr.org. June 28, 2006.

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• Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.

  John Brunner

  Stress, Kind, Share

  John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.169, Macmillan

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• All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.

  William Graham Sumner

  Winning, Men, Burdens Of Life

  William Graham Sumner (1919). “The Forgotten Man: And Other Essays”

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• My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Spring, Perfection

  Stan Getz (2017). “Stan Getz - Omnibook: For B-flat Instruments”, p.2, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Nothing is more deflating to morale than to have a poor outcome pinned on someone who doesn't deserve it. It lacks integrity and overvalues the outcome at the expense of the people as well as the process.

  Tony Dungy

  Integrity, Character, People

  Tony Dungy (2010). “The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently”, p.89, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open. In neither case should the door be blown up at the expense of those inside.

  Julius Nyerere

  Doors, Made, Should

  Julius Kambarage Nyerere (1969). “Stability and Change in Africa”

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