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• We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty

  Barack Obama

  Money, Minimum Wage, Poverty

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• Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is to have the government subsidize low-wage employment. The earned-income tax credit for low-income workers - which has been the object of proposed cuts by both President Clinton and congressional Republicans - has been a positive step in this direction.

  Paul Krugman

  Philosophy, Cutting, Government

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• Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade, and protectionism is growing in the United States. He deplores the perverse effects of minimum wage laws, and the legal minimum is regularly raised each 3 or 5 years. He brands usury laws as a medieval superstition, but no state hurries to repeal its law.

  George Stigler

  Philosophy, Years, Law

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• I think that if it is - has to do with global warming, or if it has to do with raising the minimum wage, or if it has to do with lowering prescription drugs for vulnerable citizens - all of those things are people issues, not Democratic issues or Republican issues.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Thinking, Issues, People

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. November 25.

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• Because it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have both. If you have a welfare state, if you have a state in which every resident is promises a certain minimal level of income, or a minimum level of subsistence, regardless of whether he works or not, produces it or not. Then it really is an impossible thing.

  Milton Friedman

  Jobs, Impossible Things, Promise

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• But I also want to give them a pathway so that they can earn citizenship, earn a legal status, start learning English, pay a significant fine, go to the back of the line, but they can then stay here and they can have the ability to enforce a minimum wage that they're paid, make sure the worker safety laws are available, make sure that they can join a union.

  Barack Obama

  Law, Safety, Giving

  "Transcript: NPR Democratic Candidates' Debate". www.npr.org. December 4, 2007.

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• Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization. A class of people is growing up who are unexploitable because they are not worth employing even for the minimum wage. Technological progress makes whole categories of people useless without making it possible to support them with the wealth produced by the progress.

  Jacques Ellul

  Growing Up, Class, Numbers

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• In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a time when more than one billion people are denied the very minimum requirements of human dignity, business cannot afford to be seen as the problem. Rather, it must work with governments and all other actors in society to mobilize global science, technology and knowledge to tackle the interlocking crises of hunger, disease, environmental degradation and conflict that are holding back the developing world.

  Kofi Annan

  Responsibility, Technology, Government

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• The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour.

  Jane Fonda

  Exercise, Work Out, Three

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• The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.

  Albert Einstein

  Goal, Embrace, Hypothesis

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• I wish our country could be a free and happy one. Every citizen need not go against their conscience and can find their own place by their virtue and talents; a simple and happy society, where the goodness of humanity is expanded to the maximum, and the evilness of humanity is constrained to the maximum; honesty, trust, kindness, and helping each other are everyday occurrences in life; there is not so much anger and anxiety, a pure smile on everyone’s face.

  Xu Zhiyong

  Country, Honesty, Kindness

  "The Trial of the Chinese Dream" by Evan Osnos, www.newyorker.com. January 17, 2014.

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• Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro, the coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Enemy, Looks, Wages

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• Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated.

  Nick Hanauer

  Cutting, Thinking, People

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• I'm on the pursuit of awesomeness, excellence is the bare minimum.

  Kanye West

  Excellence, Awesomeness, Pursuit

  "Kanye West Documentary Gives Unofficial Look At ‘Yeezus’ Rapper’s Rise To Fame". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2013.

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• Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Temptation, Looks, Facts

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• If your name is Sepp, at the bare minimum you’ve strangled someone in a bar fight.

  John Oliver

  Fighting, Names, Bars

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• Number one, we need to get in shape, number two we need to shoot, number three, we need to learn self-defense, and number four, we need to study small-unit tactics... If you do not have 5,000 rounds of .223, 5,000 rounds of .22 and 1,000 rounds of handgun ammo, as a MINIMUM, you're wrong. We need to train our families how to shoot as well. We need to get food. We need to have a year's supply of food, two years supply of seeds, we need to have a year's supply of sundry items. That's what it means to be an American. We prepare for the worst but hope for the best.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Mean, Years

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• Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

  Michael Korda

  Work, Males, Method

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• The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree of consciousness, the more intensive the despair. This is everywhere apparent, most clearly in despair at its maximum and minimum. The devil's despair is the most intensive despair, for the devil is sheer spirit and hence unqualified consciousness and transparency; there is no obscurity in the devil that could serve as a mitigating excuse. Therefore, his despair is the most absolute defiance. . . .

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Despair, Devil, Degrees

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• The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to
  an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.

  Abraham Maslow

  Zero, Men, Justice

  Abraham Harold Maslow, Deborah Collins Stephens, Gary Heil (1998). “Maslow on management”, Wiley

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• To me, one of the greatest triumphs in doing a book is to tell the story as simply as possible. My aim is to imply rather than to overstate. Whenever the reader participates with his own interpretation, I feel that the book is much more successful. I write with the premise that less is more. Writing is not difficult to me. I read into a tape recorder, constantly dropping a word here and there from my manuscript until I get a minimum amount of words to say exactly what I want to say. Each time I drop a word or two, it brings me a sense of victory!

  Ezra Jack Keats

  Book, Writing, Successful

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

  Mitch McConnell

  People, Minimum Wage, Levels

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

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• As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.

  Isabel Paterson

  Government, Oppression, Being The Best

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.69, Transaction Publishers

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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, Levels

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• The last thing we need to do, relating to teachers, is the key to a good education in this country is a strong teacher. I would have a minimum wage for all our teachers, $40,000 per year.

  Bill Richardson

  Country, Teacher, Strong

  "In Their Own Words: Democratic Candidates Speak Out On Education". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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