Levels Quotes - Page 40

• The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people.

  Mitch McConnell

  People, Minimum Wage, Young

  "Study: Most sponsors of minimum wage hike bill don't pay interns". www.foxnews.com. January 27, 2014.

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• Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being gay and Christian across denominations is at once timely, smart, poignant, disturbing, inspiring, and maddening. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about the rights of the LGBTQ community to be treated as equal citizens at every level, including the religious-which means it should be essential reading for everybody.

  Donna Freitas

  Christian, Religious, Attitude

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• My life is essentially not so unique. On some deeper levels we feel the same, we know the same things. Therefore if I show my life 365 days, moments from those days, it will reflect and it will have connection with lives of all of us.

  Jonas Mekas

  Unique, Connections, Life Is

  "Short Films Coming Soon to an iPod Near You". "All Things Considered" with Debbie Elliott, www.npr.org. November 5, 2006.

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• Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Brother, Games

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• The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is...beside the point.

  Rich Lowry

  Years, Debate, Rage

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• Reuters was completely accurate that I am concerned about the level of the market. But I also made it clear on the conference call (and I believe as Reuters reported it), that it is almost impossible to predict what a market will do in the short term. There are too many variables.

  Carl Icahn

  Believe, Variables, Impossible

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• I never manage to get to bed early on Sunday night but this doesn't matter, as I don't know one level of exhaustion from another.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Sunday, Night, Bed

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• The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

  Samuel Richardson

  Thinking, Delight, World

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.392

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• The average person is unaware that he or she is living out a negative destiny according to his or her past (childhood) programming, preserving his or her familiar identity, and, in the process, pushing love away. On an unconscious level, many people sense that if they did not push love away, the whole world, as they have experienced it, would be shattered and they would not know who they were.

  Robert W. Firestone

  Past, Destiny, Average

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• We can take absolutely anything that runs on PC or high-end console and run it on Tegra...I didn't think that we'd be at this level on mobile for another 3 - 4 years.

  Tim Sweeney

  Running, Thinking, Years

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• The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.

  Ashton Eaton

  People, Desire, Innate

  "Ashton Eaton throws off the uniform". Interview with Morty Ain, www.espn.com. July 11, 2012.

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• He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.

  Charles James

  Guilt, Trying, Bears

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• I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.

  Larry Wall

  Cute, Cutting, Rooms

  Usenet postings, 1997.

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• I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.

  Michael Eisner

  Shoes, Pairs, Empty

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• The organizations that will truly excel in the future will be the organizations that discover how to tap people's commitment and capacity to learn at all levels in an organization.

  Peter Senge

  Commitment, Organization, People

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• I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level; otherwise it gets a bit frustrating.

  Andy Summers

  Play, Language, Frustrating

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• Not many people realize this, but I'm a really squeamish guy. When I watch other horror films that are really over-the-top with their blood and guts, I cannot watch it. So if my threshold to something onscreen is at that level, you can imagine how my threshold is to all the pain and suffering that is happening in the real world.

  James Wan

  Pain, Real, Blood

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

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• Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.

  Robert Greene

  Self, People, Giving

  50 Cent, Robert Greene (2010). “The 50th Law”, p.6, Profile Books

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• Life didn't just happen to them. They experienced life at a deeper level than I had ever experienced it. I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.

  Larry Brilliant

  Heart, Wings, People

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• Policy change is most effectively enacted on the local and state level.

  Jill Vialet

  States, Policy, Locals

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• I have not heard almost anybody suggest that raising the minimum wage to the level we have in Vermont has been an impediment to our economy which is doing reasonably well ... If somebody is going to work that person has got to receive at least a wage that they can go out and live with dignity on. That's an extremely important point.

  Bernie Sanders

  Important, Minimum Wage, Vermont

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• This [minimum wage] legislation, passed by the 81st Congress at its first session, is an important addition to the laws we live by. It is a measure dictated by social justice. It adds to our economic strength. It is founded on the belief that full human dignity requires at least a minimum level of economic sufficiency and security.

  Harry S. Truman

  Law, Justice, Important

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my first job. And each time that we've tried to boost the lower level of salary for the most underpaid workers, there have been predictions of catastrophe. But each time, in [m]y opinion, the change has helped our Nation and its economic strength.

  Jimmy Carter

  Jobs, Labor Force, Salary

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• In that moment, when watches and clocks misbehave and you feel a cold vapor wrap itself around your heart, you unconsciously draw a line at the bottom of a long column of numbers and come up with a sum. Perhaps it's one that fills you with contentment and endows you with a level of courage and an acceptance that you didn't know you possessed.Or maybe not.

  James Lee Burke

  Heart, Acceptance, Numbers

  James Lee Burke (2010). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. And I believe many of the politicians in Louisiana are among the most stomach-churning examples of white trash and venality I have ever known. To me, the fact that large numbers of people find them humorously picaresque is mind numbing, on a level with telling fond tales of one's rapist.

  James Lee Burke

  Believe, Home, Ignorance

  James Lee Burke (2013). “Creole Belle: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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