Spending Quotes - Page 30

• I don't think Republicans will be fooled into taking this necessary spending and using it to oppose pro-growth tax cuts, using this tragedy and those deaths for his own political desires.

  Grover Norquist

  Cutting, Thinking, Political

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• I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.

  Harry S. Truman

  Numbers, Mind, Patch Up

  Harry S. Truman, Robert J. Donovan (1994). “The Words of Harry S. Truman”

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• Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a great parcel of land in 1780 and have been accumulating family wealth by collecting rents ever since. In America, that old money is long gone - through instability, inflation, taxes, philanthropy, and spending.

  Bill Gates

  America, Land, Long

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• The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Sleep, Heart

  "TheWorld Is Too Much with Us" l. 1 (1807)

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• We have a choice. We can live in the past and be miserable and unhappy, or we can pick ourselves up and move ahead in life. When we choose to focus forward, we can find the energy and ability to remove any obstacles that may appear to be hindering our smooth progression. If you take stock of yourself and find you may be spending time frequently reliving unhappy experiences of the past, make the decision to rid yourself of the ties that bind you to a former way of life.

  John Templeton

  Moving, Past, Ties

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• Our basic civil liberties are in jeopardy, but we're going to be spending our time as a society arguing about whether or not schoolchildren should be forced to pay tribute to imaginary invisible beings who live in magical kingdoms in outer space some

  Tom Tomorrow

  Space, Liberty, Kingdoms

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• You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.

  Wilbur Ross

  Reckoning, Borrowing

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• If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America.

  Wilbur Ross

  Class, America, Want

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• Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

  Aldous Huxley

  Nature, Environment, Prosperity

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• I vote Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.

  David Letterman

  Jobs, Believe, Government

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• Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers.

  Charles Marion Russell

  Horse, Cowboy, Men

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• Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it.

  Kit Carson

  Thinking, Dollars, Hundred

  Kit Carson, Blanche Chloe Grant (2006). “Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life”, p.20, Sunstone Press

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• Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much.

  Will Rogers

  Government, Doe, Politics

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• The reward of child rearing is spending the rest of your life proudly knowing this person you helped guide. Let him be himself.

  Mike Sager

  Children, Knowing, Rewards

  "Teens" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. June 08, 2012.

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• Low self esteem is rooted in many things. One of them is not spending time to appreciate the gifts we've been given.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Self Esteem, Appreciate, Spending Time

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Dec 18, 2013

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• We had a great lunch. Senator Capper paid for it. The Republican pays, as usual. And everything that the Democrats are doin' now, the Republicans pay for it. Everybody asks me, "Will, how long is this going to go on, spending all this money and everything going like this?" I says, "Well, it will go on just as long as the Republicans has got any money. That's all I know about it."

  Will Rogers

  Lunch, Long, Usual

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• So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees.

  John Muir

  Fall, Angel, Sunshine

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• We are not going to have a situation where our education spending goes back to its lowest level since the year 2000 despite a larger population and more kids to educate. We know that the single most important thing in terms of how well we can compete around the world is the quality of our workforce. We can't do that to our kids.

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Years, Quality

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I'm very consistent about spending time with family. And when you have dinner with your daughters - they'll keep you in your place and they'll teach you something about perspective.

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Perspective, Dinner

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love - I think that's the meaning of this human experience.

  Steve Gleason

  Love, Life, Meaningful

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• President Reagan, Jack Kemp and other advocates of supply-side economics understood that pro-growth tax, spending and economic policies were essential to America's long-term economic and fiscal health.

  Bob Beauprez

  America, Long, Growth

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• Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

  Carrie P. Meek

  Years, Dollars, Band

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• It’s scary to realize that the only thing holding our friends to us isn’t our performance, or our lovability, or their guilt, or their obligation. The only thing that will keep them calling, spending time with us, and putting up with us is love. And that’s the one thing we can’t control.

  Henry Cloud

  Scary, Guilt, Calling

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• I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be living in a world dominated by the People's Republic. China is simply inexorable in its pursuit of wealth, growth and power. It cares little about human rights, democracy, labor protections, fair trade rules or the environment. It is relentless in advancing its national interests.

  Mort Kondracke

  Grandchildren, Rights, People

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• I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.

  Brit Marling

  Dream, Morning, Reading

  "Brit Marling Talks SOUND OF MY VOICE, THE EAST, Working with Robert Redford in THE COMPANY YOU KEEP, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 27, 2012.

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