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• Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually.

  George Soros

  Marijuana, Dollars, Enforcement

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• The faster the gambling activity, the more highly addictive it is; and the more addictive the gambling activity is, the more revenue it will generate for the industry

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Faster, Activity

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• All media owners want to attract advertising revenue. Google is no different.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Media, Google, Different

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• Everything I did actually helped to build the revenue, shall we say, of experience, which enabled me to play a variety of roles as I got older.

  Angela Lansbury

  Play, Roles, Variety

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• No man in this country is under the smallest obligation, moral or otherwise, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or his property as to enable the Inland Revenue to put the largest shovel into his stores.

  James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde

  Country, Men, Moral

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• Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

  Gary Becker

  Philosophy, Punishment, Political

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• You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

  David Rockefeller

  Kindness, Heart, Gentleman

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

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• We don't have a tax revenue problem in Washington, we have a spending problem in Washington.

  Paul Ryan

  Problem, Spending, Taxes

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• The idea of defending, as integral parts of our Empire, countries 10,000 miles off, like Australia, which neither pay a shilling to our revenue... nor afford us any exclusive trade... is about as quixotic a specimen of national folly as was ever exhibited.

  Richard Cobden

  Country, Ideas, Australia

  "Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden M.P". Book edited by James E. Thorold Rogers, 1878.

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• Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of the democracy; measures therefore should be taken which will give them lasting prosperity; and as this is equally the interest of all classes, the proceeds of the public revenues should be accumulated and distributed among its poor, if possible, in such quantities as may enable them to purchase a little farm, or, at any rate, make a beginning in trade or husbandry.

  Aristotle

  True Friend, Taken, Character

  Aristotle, William David Ross (1955). “Works”

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• In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

  James Buchan

  Eye, Past, Play

  "Greed and amnesia: the devils in financial history" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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• Our goal is long-term growth in revenue and absolute profit - so we invest aggressively in future innovation while tightly managing our short-term costs.

  Larry Page

  Long, Goal, Innovation

  "Larry Page Just Put Out A Big Manifesto - Read The Full Thing Here" by Matt Lynley, www.businessinsider.com. April 5, 2012.

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• An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Art, Philosophy, Years

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4514, Delphi Classics

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• Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax rates, when President Bush imposed those tax cuts, they actually generated economic growth. They expanded the economy. They expand tax revenues.

  Mike Pence

  Cutting, Reality, Thinking

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

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• Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.

  Mike Pence

  Data, Historical, Income

  Interview with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. November 7, 2010.

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• The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect.

  Mike Pence

  Cutting, Reality, Years

  "Reps. Pence, Clyburn Survey Political Landscape". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2010.

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• As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

  John Podhoretz

  Ideas, Matter, Groups

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• President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.

  William J. Clinton

  Two, President, Dollars

  William J. Clinton's speech to the Democratic National Convention, www.washingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a more noble extract, and in all probability might have brought greater revenues of glory to God; yet that Christ should pass by those golden vessels, and make us clods of earth into stars of glory -- Oh, the hyperbole of Christ's love!

  Thomas Watson

  Stars, Angel, Noble

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• All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

  Jonathan Swift

  Happiness, Pain, Years

  "Complete Works of Jonathan Swift".

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• I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The company starts valuing the great salesmen, because they’re the ones who can move the needle on revenues, not the product engineers and designers. So the salespeople end up running the company.

  Walter Isaacson

  Running, Jobs, Moving

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.692, Simon and Schuster

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• At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Freedom, Yield, Assessment

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• Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Money, Party

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• Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Real, Real Friends, Wages

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1884). “Cicero de Amicitia (on Friendship) and Scipio's Dream”

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• At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar.

  Eric Ries

  Twenties, Dollars, Acquisition

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