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• The real minimum wage is zero.

  Thomas Sowell

  Zero, Real, Minimum Wage

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.55, Hoover Press

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• It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Family, Retirement

  Daily Labor Report, Issues 169-189, Bureau of National Affairs, 2010.

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• There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.

  George S. Patton

  Military, Mean, Army

  "Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder". Book by Michael Savage. Chapter 1: "More Patton, Less Patent Leather", p. 4, 2005.

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• Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.

  Frederick Scott Oliver

  Mean, Men, Political

  Frederick Scott Oliver (1934). “Politics and politicians”

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• It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax.

  Richard Neal

  Three, Alternatives, Bills

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• The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Important, Cost, Minimum Wage

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• I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

  William Weld

  Thinking, Government, Taxation

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• Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

  Thomas Szasz

  Childhood, Fatherhood, Age

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• A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

  Richard Cobden

  Information, Newspapers, Should

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• I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty

  Barbara Mikulski

  Country, Jobs, Minimum Wage

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• I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

  La Monte Young

  Mean, Definitions, Minimalism

  "Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds". Book by David Toop, 1995.

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• The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to the American people. We need, at a minimum, a level of coordination on communicating threats to the public.

  Vito Fossella

  People, Different, Needs

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• The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

  David Rockefeller

  Beautiful, Art, Numbers

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

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• These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.

  Steve Finley

  Sight, Law, Safety

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• Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Pain, Atheism, Coercion

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• Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

  Bill Pascrell

  Tanks, Minimum Wage, Half

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• The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If its coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?

  Malcolm Wallop

  Crazy, Thinking, Government

  "[Flashback interview] Retired Senator Malcolm Wallop: 'The Great American Experiment'". Interview With Peter Evans, Helen Evans, www.ff.org. January 6, 2013.

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• When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.

  Atom Egoyan

  Writing, Character, Mind

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  War, Fighting, Air

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• As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.

  Ronald Blythe

  Church, Helping, Bathroom

  'The Age of Illusion' (1963) ch. 12

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• Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.

  Adolf Eichmann

  Thinking, Liberty, Needs

  "Why? New Eichmann Notes Try to Explain" by Roger Cohen, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 1999.

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• Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.

  Alain Prost

  Thinking, Winning, Race

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.

  Joan Miro

  Art, Character, Mean

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• I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Numbers, Giving

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• You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.

  Parker Stevenson

  Air, Done, Television

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