Pay Quotes - Page 36

• Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

  Amity Shlaes

  Vote, Should, Taxes

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• Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.

  Nevil Shute

  Safety, Lips, Lip Service

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• There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.

  Kate Adie

  Jobs, Equal Pay, Law

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• The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.

  Evel Knievel

  Men, Gold, Finest

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• Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege.

  Doug Henwood

  Government, People, Privilege

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• Figures cannot calculate the amount collected by those public and private robbers: it is more than would liberate every slave in the United States; it would pay the British debt! They say, We do not force people to give. I see no difference between forcing a man out of his money, at the mouth of a pistol, and forcing it from by trick and cunning; the crime is the same.

  Anne Royall

  Men, Differences, People

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• Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising of a telephone box. It is not helpful for understanding what hit New York on September 11. Those people were not mindless and they were certainly not cowards. On the contrary, they had sufficiently effective minds braced with an insane courage, and it would pay us mightily to understand where that courage came from. It came from religion.

  Richard Dawkins

  New York, People, Leader

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• Unlike those theists who at least pay lip service to science and scientific method, Johnson is out to convict science of fraud in the court of public opinion.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Scary, Public Opinion, Scientific Method

  Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books

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• There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them. And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It's hard to charge admission without a gate.

  Bill Watterson

  Voice, Different, Gone

  Source: library.osu.edu

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• Comedy pays the bills if I can't find a film.

  Robin Williams

  Bills, Comedy, Film

  Source: www.rd.com

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• I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.

  Bill Gates

  Numbers, Trying, Done

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• In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker's productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband's pain and suffering.

  Gloria Steinem

  Pain, Husband, Productive Work

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.392, Open Road Media

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• Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We have the high cost of government to diminish, and we are diminishing it. We have a heavy burden of taxation to reduce, and we are reducing it. But while remarkable progress has been made in these directions, the work is yet far from accomplished.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Progress, Taxation

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Message of the President of the United States to the Congress at the Beginning of the Second Session of the Sixty-eighth Congress, December 3 1924”

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• Be friends with everybody. When you have friends you will know there is somebody who will stand by you. You know the old saying, that if you have a single enemy you will find him everywhere. It doesn't pay to make enemies. Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to every one about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Friendship, Happy Life, Enemy

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• Standing navies, as well as standing armies, serve to keep alive the spirit of war even in the meek heart of peace. In its very embers and smoulderings, they nourish that fatal fire, and half-pay officers, as the priests of Mars, yet guard the temple, though no god be there.

  Herman Melville

  War, Heart, Army

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war”, p.247

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• ... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have itfor her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Self, Should Have

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• Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern appointments and salaries.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Sex, Equal Pay, Should Have

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• I'll
  Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll
  pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll
  write a poem called Yellow and put
  my lips down to drink it up.

  Anne Sexton

  Hope, Motivation, Writing

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to the best performance you can give.Nothing in your personal life must interfere, neither fatigue, illness, nor anxiety--not even joy.

  Lillian Gish

  Giving, Joy, Anxiety

  Lillian Gish (1969). “The Movies, Mr. Grifith, and Me”

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• Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so rich with irony that it's a better subject for a comic novel than a column.... On one coast the cops are busting sex workers on Eighth Avenue, dragging them downtown to night court where they pay the fine and go right back to their corner; on another they're charging Heidi Fleiss with pandering in a town in which the verb is an art form.

  Anna Quindlen

  Art, Sex, Home

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• A day's pay for a day's work is more than adequate when both the work and the pay are appreciated as much as they are expected.

  Cullen Hightower

  Wages, Adequate, Appreciated

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• A pound of worry won't pay an ounce of debt.

  John Ray

  Worry, Debt, Pounds

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• Death comes along like a gas bill one can't pay.

  Anthony Burgess

  Bills, Gas

  1974 Interview in Playboy.

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• Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Justice, Fine Things, Fine

  1707 Crispin rival de son ma|"tre, pt.9.

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• Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Earth, Rooms

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