Fund Quotes - Page 9

• The Sister Fund supports spiritual women and their organizations, both grassroots activists for justice, and national and international social change agents.

  Helen LaKelly Hunt

  Spiritual, Organization, Justice

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• There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

  William Hazlitt

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Conversation

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.77

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• In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Food, Mean, Alcohol

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• A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.

  Renny Harlin

  Movie, Government, Foundation

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.

  Mary Schmich

  Trust, Running, Support You

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• If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.

  Peter Lynch

  Homework, Mutual Fund, Stomach

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• Childhood obesity isn't some simple, discrete issue. There's no one cause we can pinpoint. There's no one program we can fund to make it go away. Rather, it's an issue that touches on every aspect of how we live and how we work.

  Michelle Obama

  Simple, Issues, Childhood

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• We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.

  Mike Pence

  Pro Life, Dollars, Use

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts.

  Mike Pence

  Trust, Saving, Social

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

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• Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

  Bruce Braley

  Social, Billions, Minimum

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• The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.

  Martin Feldstein

  World, Way, Financial

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• If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond.

  Catfish Hunter

  Cancer, Average, League

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• In the North, the sale of government bonds was the one measure for raising funds that seemed to work. Even that, however, with the lure of compounded interest to be paid in gold at a future date, failed to raise more than about half the needed amount. So the Union faced a real dilemma. The only options remaining were (1) terminate the war or (2) print fiat money. For Lincoln and the Republicans who controlled Congress, the choice was never seriously in doubt.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Real, War, Government

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• The one thing that’s missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash, a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B, without A knowing B or B knowing A.

  Milton Friedman

  Knowing, Missing, Cash

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• While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis

  Carl Levin

  Long, Needs, Social

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• In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities.

  Spencer Bachus

  Block, Government, Community

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• As important as the funds are, the vision is the greatest gift.

  Neil Young

  Vision, Important, Greatest Gifts

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• In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042.

  Nick Clooney

  Running, Hype, President

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• Our struggle is to identify the sources of revenue and the means to obtain the funds.Without funds, all the planning and research studies can't help us.

  John Breaux

  Struggle, Mean, Research Study

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• They [Greenpeace] forgot their original purpose and turned into a big, rich bureaucracy, more interested in fund-raising than in saving lives, so I got fed up and quit... they're a bunch of wimps.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Wimps, Purpose

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• If you need to raise funds from donors, you need to study them, respect them, and build everything you do around them.

  Jeff Brooks

  Fundraising, Theatre, Needs

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• I called all the major network news bureaus, including Public Radio, and reported ozone AIDS cures coming out of Europe. Not a single reporter or show called back for details. I wrote and sent documentation to all the 'household word' TV talk show hosts who make their living acting 'concerned' and I tried all the 'AIDS fund raising spokespeople', show business celebs, even sending proof of their home addresses, but as of yet not one single phone call or inquiry came back for more.

  Ed McCabe

  Cancer, Home, Europe

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• Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Play, Growth, Important

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• Spurs haven't got the funds they need so success has to be achieved gradually.

  Graham Roberts

  Spurs, Needs, Havens

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• You don’t have to sleep with prostitutes or take drugs in order to have a relationship with organized crime. They affect our bank accounts. They affect our communications, our pension funds. They even affect the food that we eat and our governments.

  Misha Glenny

  Communication, Sleep, Government

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