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• If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires there shall be no regrets.

  Bessie Coleman

  Regret, Desire, Plans

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• Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation.

  Robert Teeter

  Christmas, Vacation, Together

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• Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income.

  Mark Dayton

  Support, Income, Minimum Wage

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• Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.

  Michele Bachmann

  Jobs, Unemployment, Gone

  "Michele Bachmann Said What?!" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. June 6, 2011.

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• It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

  Jon Corzine

  Years, Minimum Wage, Levels

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• I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.

  Quentin Crisp

  People, Promise, Passionate

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• The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end

  Claude M. Bristol

  Inspirational, Time, Clear Goals

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.148, Lulu.com

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• Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

  Nigel Farage

  Ideas, Alcohol, Duty

  "Europe sets the rules on booze" by Nigel Farage, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2009.

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• There are people who would like to get rid of minimum wage. But we have to have it, because if we didn't some people would not get paid money. They would work all week for two loaves of bread and some Spam.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• A straight line can readily be drawn among each of the two series of points corresponding to the maxima and minima, thus showing that there is a simple relation between the brightness of the variables and their periods.

  Henrietta Swan Leavitt

  Stars, Simple, Two

  "Periods of 25 Variable Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud". Harvard College Observatory Circular, vol. 173, (pp. 1-3), 1912.

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

  Richard Cobden

  Information, Newspapers, Should

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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