Higher Quotes - Page 13

• Products are valued higher than services.

  James Altucher

  Products

  "The 100 Rules for Being an Entrepreneur". www.jamesaltucher.com.

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• I don't sleep. I wait. I sleep in cars and on couches. I sleep when I can, but when I can't sleep, I just don't, so I figure there's a higher calling keeping me on point that night.

  Charlie Sheen

  Sleep, Night, Car

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• Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

  Aristotle

  Art, Type, Art Is

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• For the best building and planting...the architect and gardener must have some knowledge of each other's business, and each must regard with feelings of kindly reverence the unknown domains of the other's higher knowledge.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Feelings, Building, Architect

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• Presently we have to train our unconscious to function better. Then we can depend upon our instincts, that will be noble instincts. At this moment, our instincts are very impure. When we have practiced for a long time, living the higher values of life and following the instructions of great masters or the Scriptures, that is when you have trained your unconscious. Then when a situation comes, you can to an extent, depend on your inner voice.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Voice, Long, Noble

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• The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to bankrupt America by drawing it into a trap. The 2011 military budget - almost matching that of the rest of the world combined - is higher in real terms than at any time since World War II and is slated to go even higher .

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Military, Real

  Noam Chomsky (2016). “Who Rules the World?”, p.62, Metropolitan Books

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• [T]he guilty as well as the innocent are entitled to due process of law. They are entitled to a fair trial. They are entitled to counsel. They are entitled to fair treatment from the police. The law enforcement officer has the same duty as the citizen-indeed, he has a higher duty-to abide by the letter and spirit of our Constitution and laws. You yourselves must be careful to obey the letter of the law. You yourselves must be intellectually honest in the enforcement of the law.

  Harry S. Truman

  Law, Police, Letters

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• It's one thing to maintain that upper-income earners should pay higher tax rates because they are better able to shoulder the burden for essential government services. But it's constitutional blasphemy to claim that the tax code should be used as a weapon against the wealthy and that the state should be the tyrannical arbiter of how income is distributed.

  David Limbaugh

  Government, Essentials, Income

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• The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs.

  James Cook

  Jobs, Wages, Fewer

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• As proof of this statement, consider this question: Have the people ever been known to rise against the Court of Appeals, or mob a Justice of the Peace, in order to get higher wages, free credit, tools of production, favorable tariffs, or government-created jobs? Everyone knows perfectly well that such matters are not within the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals or a Justice of the Peace. And if government were limited to its proper functions, everyone would soon learn that these matters are not within the jurisdiction of the law itself.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Jobs, Government, Order

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• We will shortly become like Germany, France, the United Kingdom, or Sweden - a socialist democracy in which the government dominates the economy, determines private-sector priorities and offers a vastly expanded range of services to many more people at much higher taxes.

  Dick Morris

  Government, People, Priorities

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• Up until 1986, the top marginal rate, the top statutory rate was 50 percent. Now it's 35 percent. And all the pressure is on to lower that even further. And this just doesn't make a great deal of sense. When people say, 'Oh, we can't raise taxes on the rich. They'll go on strike, they'll move to another country.' But within recent memory, it hasn't been that long ago that we had rates that were substantially higher. And these people did just fine. I just think that there's a disconnect between the facts of what taxes do and the sort of mythology of what they do.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Country, Memories, Moving

  "Bill Moyers: Where the Right Went Wrong". Interview with Bill Moyers, www.truth-out.org. February 12, 2012.

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• For Al Gore and Paul Ehrlich and Co., whatever the problem, the solution is always the same. Whether it's global cooling, global warming, or overpopulation, we need bigger government, more regulation, higher taxes, and a massive transfer of power from the citizens to some unelected self-perpetuating crisis lobby.

  Mark Steyn

  Government, Self, Needs

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.29, Regnery Publishing

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• Both HUD and the Department of Justice began bringing lawsuits against mortgage bankers when a higher percentage of minority applicants than white applicants were turned down for mortgage loans. A substantial majority of both black and white mortgage loan applicants had their loans approved but a statistical difference was enough to get a bank sued.

  Thomas Sowell

  Black And White, Differences, Justice

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.163, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Regular readers will know I'm a fan of (Cristiano) Ronaldo, and an even bigger fan of the man who's assumed his mantle with quite astonishing success, Wayne Rooney. But Messi is on a higher plain than even that pair.

  Andy Cole

  Cristiano Ronaldo, Men, Messi

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• To see farther, you must climb higher.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Climbs

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• When you become famous you get to torture a higher class of man than before.

  Sharon Stone

  Men, Class, Torture

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• If you want to understand science, you have to understand math. In business, if you're enumerate, you're going to be a klutz. The good thing about business is that you don't have to know any higher math.

  Charlie Munger

  Math, Want, Good Things

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• Whether this vast homogeneous expanse of isotropic matter is fitted not only to be a medium of physical interaction between distant bodies, and to fulfil other physical functions of which perhaps we have as yet no conception, but also to constitute the material organism of beings exercising functions of life and mind as high or higher than ours are at present is a question far transcending the limits of physical speculation.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Exercise, Mind, Body

  James Clerk Maxwell (1952). “Scientific Papers”

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• President [Barack] Obama's staking his reelection hopes on rebuilding America's middle class. He wants higher taxes on the wealthy, tougher rules on Wall Street, and everyone else to get a fair shot to succeed. Republicans can cry "class warfare" if they want, but as the president put it today, it's about this country's welfare.

  Chris Matthews

  Country, Wall, Class

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• In the Western world, countries that were once the crucible of freedom are slipping remorselessly into a thinly disguised serfdom in which an ever higher proportion of your assets are annexed by the state as superlandlord. Big government is where nations go to die - not in Keynes' 'long run,' but sooner than you think.

  Mark Steyn

  Running, Country, Thinking

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• I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Perseverance, Moving, Good Friend

  "Pierce Brosnan on How It All Began — and How Bond Ended". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. August 22, 2014.

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• The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much higher than for the wealthy.

  Dan Ariely

  People, Cost, Debt

  "Mental depletion complicates financial decisions for the poor". Interview with Kristen Doerer, www.pbs.org. January 19, 2016.

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• Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those lower is nearly always invisible, that is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully rationalized. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, horror, and the fetishization of the victims.

  Derrick Jensen

  Civilization, Doe, Done

  "Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization". Book by Derrick Jensen, January 4, 2011.

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• Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.

  Bill Gates

  Drug, Surveillance, Information

  "Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. March 13, 2014.

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