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• To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law - a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Law, Opposites, Suffering

  "A Canticle for Leibowitz". Book by Walter M. Miller, Jr., 1960.

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• The problem is whether we are determined to go in the direction of compassion or not. If we are, then can we reduce the suffering to a minimum? If I lose my direction, I have to look for the North Star, and I go to the north. That does not mean I expect to arrive at the North Star. I just want to go in that direction.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, Stars, Truth

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.118, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

  Joe Orton

  Work, Reading, Police

  Loot (1967) act 2

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• How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life – and a commitment to action. Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: ‘What's good in my life?’ and ‘What needs to be done?

  Nathaniel Branden

  Leadership, Motivation, Commitment

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• If I do not seem to be mentioning anything I’ve read lately, it is because I am in one of those periods of undifferentiated flux or something in which I am reading about fifty, at a minimum, books at once, so of course I seldom finish one. Eventually this phase will pass, and I’ll discover I have about ten pages to go in all of them, and will sit down and systematically finish them, one after another.

  Edward Gorey

  Book, Reading, Phases

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• Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.

  Norman Mailer

  Fitness, Workout, Health

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.89, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Turkish-American relations are based on very strong foundations. Currently, we have a war in the region, which could not be prevented, unfortunately. We hope it is a short war ... with minimum casualties.

  Abdullah Gul

  Strong, War, Foundation

  "Powell backs post-Djindjic reforms", www.cnn.com. April 2, 2003.

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• It is important to practice so your movement is the minimum
  necessary to complete its task.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Practice, Important, Tasks

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• I do meet-and-greets at every show and meet a minimum of 20-35 fans at each.

  Bret Michaels

  Fans, Shows

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• Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour are hard to resist.

  Tom DeLay

  Emotional, Trying, Minimum Wage

  Congressional Record, Volume 142, No.53, April 23, 1996.

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• I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals.

  Brigid Brophy

  Life, Death, Pain

  "Don't Ever Forget: Collected Views and Reviews".

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• What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Writing

  More Tramps Abroad ch. 23, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time - show that most Americans share what one could call core liberal or progressive values: investment in health care and education over tax cuts; fair trade over free trade; corporate accountability over deregulation; environmental protection over laissez-faire policies; defending Social Security and Medicare over privatizing them; raising the minimum wage over eliminating it. The country prefers progressive alternatives to the failed policies of the conservative right.

  Katrina vanden Heuvel

  Country, Health, Cutting

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• The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.

  William James

  Order, Space, Biographies

  William James (2015). “Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth”, p.50, William James

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• Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed to produce this labor-commodity? Just enough labor time to produce the objects indispensable to the constant maintenance of labor, that is, to keep the worker alive and in a condition to propagate his race. The natural price of labor is no other than the wage minimum.

  Karl Marx

  Race, Maintenance, Alive

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)”, p.326, Delphi Classics

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• I think the minimum wage ought to keep pace with inflation.

  Mitt Romney

  Thinking, Pace, Minimum Wage

  "Mitt Romney’s Pants Discovered on Fire" by Robert J. Elisberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 1994.

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• There's no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Loss, Minimum Wage

  "Mitt Romney’s Pants Discovered on Fire" by Robert J. Elisberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2006.

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• It’s over 800 billion dollars that we have expended [in Iraq]. I believe that Iraq should pay us back for the money that we spent, and I believe that Iraq should pay the families that lost a loved one several million dollars per life, I think at minimum.

  Michele Bachmann

  Believe, Thinking, Iraq

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• The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.

  Margery Allingham

  Mean, Common Sense, Elimination

  Margery Allingham (1961). “Three Cases for Mr. Campion”

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• Teddy Kennedy's big new idea is to wheel out his 18th proposal to raise the minimum wage. He's been doing this since wages were paid in Spanish doubloons (which coincidentally are now mostly found underwater). Kennedy refuses to countenance any risky schemes like trying to grow the economy so people making minimum wage get raises because they've been promoted. Kennedy's going down and he's taking the party with him! (Recognize the pattern?)

  Ann Coulter

  Party, Ideas, People

  "Come back, liberals!". www.anncoulter.com. March 9, 2005.

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• There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts we should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer.

  Ann Coulter

  Cancer, Government, Excess

  "ANN COULTER: Don't Believe The Experts, Radiation Is Actually GOOD For You". www.businessinsider.com. March 18, 2011.

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• Unskilled and inexperienced workers are the ones most often deprived of employment opportunities by increases in the minimum wage.

  Ron Paul

  Opportunity, Employment, Minimum Wage

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• Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Confidence, Business, Self

  "The Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt". Interview with John R. Byrne, www.fastcompany.com. July 1, 2005.

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• The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations.

  Maurice Bejart

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

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• Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're talking about three to six hours a week - or a minimum of thirty minutes a day, every other day. That hardly seems an inordinate amount of time considering the tremendous benefits in terms of the impact on the other 162 - 165 hours of the week.

  Stephen Covey

  Workout, Health, Exercise

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.365, Mango Media Inc.

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