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• The people themselves, not their government, should be trusted with spending their own money and making their own decisions.

  Dick Armey

  Government, People, Decision

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• Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. You must learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Desire, Energy

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Being in Balance: 9 Principles for Creating Habits to Match Your Desires: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note.

  Big Sean

  Trying, Ends, Notes

  Song: A Million Dollars, Album: Finally Famous 2: UKNOWBIGSEAN

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• Greenspan advised the American people to buy - he repeated the old mantra: 'spending is patriotic'. He also managed to convince them that if they did not have the money, that shouldn't stop them. They would 'pay later'. To a certain extent he was correct, we are all having to 'pay later'... we may even never stop paying.

  Gilad Atzmon

  Patriotic, People, May

  Gilad Atzmon (2011). “The Wandering Who?: A Study of Jewish Identity Politics”, p.27, John Hunt Publishing

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• At length, when I considered it, I realized that the best of my actions were small things. Picking flowers and cooking food for my mother when she had been unwell, spending an afternoon with the children, sending money to my sister or kissing Henry's tiny head as he slept in the nursery before I left. I thought of every detail and afterwards I felt better. Hellfire and brimstone have never appealed to me and I admit I become easily confused thinking of right and wrong. But I do understand kindness.

  Sara Sheridan

  Mother, Children, Kindness

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• Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which is reasonable, mild, kindly, and loving, how could poverty stand in our way? For we accomplish these things not by spending money but by making the correct choice.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Wrath, Envy

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• Too often we become so consumed with how we spend our days that we lose track of how we are spending our lives.

  Sally Warner

  Time, Track, Consumed

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• Spending time in the presence of Jesus is a non-negotiable. Don't wait until you have time to do it. MAKE time.

  Christine Caine

  Jesus, Waiting, Making Time

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Jul 29, 2016

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• In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

  Laura Miller

  Dream, Air, Years

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• I'm not in favor of no government. You do need a government. But by doing so many things that the government has no business doing, it cannot do those things which it alone can do well. There's no other institution in my opinion that can provide us with protection of our life and liberty. However, the government performs that basic function poorly today, precisely because it is devoting too much of its efforts and spending too much of our income on things which are harmful. So I have no doubt that that's the major single problem we face.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Effort, Doubt

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• The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse.   The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to “help.”

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Government, Black

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• The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor -- spending and being spent -- to enrich their fellow humans, giving time, trouble, care and concern, to do good to others -- and not just their own friends -- in whatever way there seems need.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Giving, Shining

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• People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay? All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.

  David Livingstone

  Sacrifice, People, Debt

  David Livingstone (1858). “Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick”, p.23

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• Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

  Angelina Jolie

  Life, Children, Learning

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• We give up what we want to give up and keep what in some way we still want to keep. There are payoffs for holding on to small, weak patterns. We have an excuse not to shine. We don't have to take responsibility for the world when we're spending all our time in emotional pain. We're too busy. The truth that sets us free is an embrace of the divine within us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Giving Up, Pain, Responsibility

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• When the average child is now spending nearly eight hours a day in front of some kind of screen, many of their opinions and preferences are being shaped by the marketing campaigns you all create. And that’s where the problem comes in.. ... And I’m here today with one simple request - and that is to do even more and move even faster to market responsibly to our kids.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Moving, Kids

  Michelle Obama's Remarks During White House Convening on Food Marketing to Children, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 18, 2013.

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• So think long and hard about who you're spending the most time with, for wherever they are headed, so are you.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Long, Hard

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• More is accomplished by spending time in God's presence than by doing anything else.

  Heidi Baker

  Spending Time, Accomplished, God's Presence

  Heidi Baker (2014). “Birthing the Miraculous: The Power of Personal Encounters with God to Change Your Life and the World”, p.20, Charisma Media

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• People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.

  David Livingstone

  Sacrifice, People, Missionary

  David Livingstone (1858). “Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick”, p.23

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• Today government touches everything in America and harms almost everything it touches. Federal, state, and local governments together spend 42 out of every 100 dollars we earn. Those who do the taxing and spending have long since ceased to work for the people as a whole. Rather, they work for themselves and for their clients-the education industry, the welfare culture, public-employee unions, etc.

  Malcolm Wallop

  America, Government, Long

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• The night club had a curious and diverse appeal. To some it was a sex-exciter. To others, frequenting a night club and throwing away money was a form of exhibitionism...wealthy men from out of town visited the clubs for appalling orgies of spending and drinking, and most of them seemed to think it was worth the cost.

  Stanley Walker

  Sex, Drinking, Night

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• Self-reflection is the gateway to freedom. It also brings greater appreciation and enjoyment. We begin to enjoy spending time with our own mind, and we enjoy reflecting on our experience of the teachings. Like the sun emerging from behind the clouds, the teachings of the dharma become clear.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Appreciation, Teaching, Reflection

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• Frankly, I fail to see how going for a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains can be judged less real than spending six months working eight hours a day, five days a week, in order to earn enough money to be able to come back to a comfortable home in the evening and sit in front of a TV screen and watch the two-dimensional image of some guy talking about a book he has written on a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains.

  Colin Fletcher

  Real, Book, Home

  Colin Fletcher, Clem L. Rawlins (2002). “The Complete Walker IV”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.

  John Spratt

  Education, Years, Growing

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• Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

  Polly Toynbee

  Happiness, Years, Giving

  "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.

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