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• The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Police, Want, Libertarian

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• Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Success, Stress

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jan 27, 2010

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• I think a girl always needs a cardigan, and I tend to go for the sparkles. I have a minimum of 50 embellished cardigans. I'm not a believer in less is more; I'm sort of a believer in more is necessary.

  L'Wren Scott

  Girl, Thinking, Needs

  "My List: L'Wren Scott", www.harpersbazaar.com. May 17, 2013.

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• Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, union salaries go up by a similar percentage.

  Neal Boortz

  Salary, Minimum Wage, Unions

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• An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.

  Hugo Black

  Religious, Political, Firsts

  NewYork Times Co. v. Sullivan (concurring opinion) (1964)

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• When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for teachers of a prep course. I don't remember what it paid, but it was easily double or triple the minimum wage.

  John Katzman

  Teacher, Princeton University, Minimum Wage

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• Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.

  Christina Romer

  President, Minimum Wage, Unions

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• Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.

  Christina Romer

  Hard Work, Minimum Wage, Littles

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• Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

  Carl Bernstein

  Political, Reform, Movement

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• I don't think there's a date minimum or maximum. I don't get the whole 'All right, you've got to wait three days to call after the date.' If I got a number from a girl, I'd call that night. There's no science to it for me. You just do what it is that you feel like doing.

  Channing Tatum

  Girl, Night, Thinking

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• Even a wizard would have a great deal of difficulty repealing the economic law that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Since politicians are not wizards, they should not try.

  Gary Becker

  Law, Trying, Employment

  Gary Becker, Guity Becker, Guity Nashat (1998). “The Economics of Life: From Baseball to Affirmative Action to Immigration, How Real-World Issues Affect Our Everyday Life”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Move in space with minimum waste and maximum joy.

  Sade Adu

  Inspirational, Moving, Space

  Song: Smooth Operator, Album: Diamond Life, 1984

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• We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.

  Iris DeMent

  Fighting, Minimum Wage, Pay

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• The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Unjust, Accepting, Should

  "Rehnquist slams Congress over reducing sentencing discretion" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. January 1, 2004.

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• I know how to create and make people feel something. Honestly, if I didn't do this, I would just have some minimum-wage job in New Mexico, and I would go out on the weekends and make just enough money to pay my insurance and pay for a couple beers, and that would be it.

  Freddie Prinze, Jr.

  Jobs, Couple, Beer

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

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• The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children.

  Thomas Perez

  Running, Children, Typical

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• The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.

  Bruce Lee

  Running, Simplicity, Height

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• An army should always be so distributed that its parts can aid each other and combine to produce the maximum possible concentration of force at one place, while the minimum force necessary is used elsewhere to prepare the success of the concentration.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Army, Aids

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• You deliver 2,000 babies or better - 3,000 by that time. And that's, you know, at minimum, three people each. And then if you take grandparents or grandparents of siblings and aunts and uncles, you know, you get - a 100,000 votes outta that

  Tom Coburn

  Baby, Uncles, Sibling

  "Sen. Tom Coburn: A proud contrarian". "60 Minutes", www.cbsnews.com. December 21, 2014.

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• Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen for them by their authors. Gulliver's Travels, with a minimum of expurgation, has become a children's book; a new illustrated edition is produced every Christmas. That's what comes of saying profound things about humanity in terms of a fairy story.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Book, Fate

  Aldous Huxley (1932). “Rotunda: a selection from the works of Aldous Huxley”

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• I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head.

  Edward Gorey

  May, Damage, Possibility

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• You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

  William J. Clinton

  Government, Years, Needs

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.527, Best Books on

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• We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Rights, Issues, Needs

  "Now Is the Time. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Labor in the South: The Case for a Coalition". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr., Statement on minimum wage legislation (March 18, 1966), January 1986.

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• Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  People, Wages, Minimum Wage

  "Economics". Book by Joseph Stiglitz, 1993.

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• If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 words a day. Don't be shown up by a baboon

  James Scott Bell

  Writing, Each Day, Quota

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