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• I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Technology, Thinking, Leisure

  "Good Work". Book by E.F. Schumacher, p. 25, 1985.

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• School choice opponents are also dishonest when they speak of saving public schools. A Heritage Foundation survey found that 47 percent of House members and 51 percent of senators with school-age children enrolled them in private schools in 2001. Public school teachers enroll their children in private schools to a much greater extent than the general public, in some cities close to 50 percent.

  Walter E. Williams

  Teacher, Children, School

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• Open source isn't about saving money, it's about doing more stuff, and getting incremental innovation with the finite budget you have.

  Jim Whitehurst

  Innovation, Stuff, Source

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• Has the Ministry assessed what manpower savings or cost efficiencies have been derived from such use of new technologies, and how policing capabilities have been enhanced? What new initiatives can we expect, and how will the police guard against their officers being “de-skilled” by over-relying on technology?

  Sylvia Lim

  Technology, Police, Ministry

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• Easter is about Jesus: the Jesus who announced God's saving, sovereign kingdom.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Easter, Kingdoms

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• The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.

  Al Gore

  War, Principles, Tasks

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• I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries than it can cure, will deprave the population that it wants to help and comfort, will dry up the sources of savings, will stop the accumulation of capital, will retard the development of trade, and will benumb human industry.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Dry Up, Comfort, Population

  Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont (1968). “Tocqueville and Beaumont on social reform”

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• The essence of Keynesianism is its complete failure to conceive the role that saving and capital accumulation play in the improvement of economic conditions.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Essence, Play, Roles

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe that their frank criticisms are always welcome, and who feel free to "be themselves" with those they love, which turns out to mean being their worst selves, while saving their best behavior for strangers.

  Judith Martin

  Friendship, Believe, Mean

  Judith Martin (1996). “Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson”

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• A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.

  Charles Edward Montague

  Girl, Mean, Perspective

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• Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his imagination to be anything above a cavalryman, a theologian or a corporation director.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sleep, Men, Imagination

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.23, Vintage

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• There may have been a time when preservation was about saving an old building here and there, but those days are gone. Preservation is in the business of saving communities and the values they embody.

  Richard Moe

  Old Buildings, Community, Here And There

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• I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Blessing, Simple, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803”, p.18, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Wise, Fun, Butterfly

  Franklin P. Adams (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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• Nothing we formulate or do can qualify us for access to God. Only grace can do that- based not on our performance but on the saving work of Christ.

  Timothy Keller

  Grace, Christ, Performances

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.67, Penguin

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• The individual serves the planning system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it far more by consuming its products.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Individual, Consumerism, Consuming

  "The New Industrial State".

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• Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.

  Edmund Burke

  Virtue, Economy, Parsimony

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The Beauties of Burke, Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.59

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• It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.

  Arthur Miller

  Personality, Balance, Half

  Arthur Miller (2013). “Timebends: A Life”, p.11, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

  Hannah Arendt

  Creativity, Long, Grace

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• Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.

  Christopher McDougall

  Ideas, Stranger, Behavior

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• If the security personnel do their job properly, they just might cause you to miss your plane, thereby possibly saving your life.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Jobs, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.46, Ballantine Books

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• Remember always that there are two things which are more utterly incompatible even than oil and water, and these two are trust and worry. Can you call it trust, when you have given the saving and keeping of your soul into the hands of God, if day after day you are spending hours of anxious thought and questionings about the matter? When believers really trust anything, they cease to worry about the thing they have trusted.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Trust, Anxious Thoughts, Two

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• Children, we should simplify our life's needs and use the resulting savings for charity.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Needs, Use

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• The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Class, San Francisco, Pockets

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• I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.

  Jenny Eclair

  Jobs, Cat, Vision

  "This much I know" by Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2008.

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