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• Deficits, as I've often said, aren't caused by too little taxing, they're caused by too much spending. Presidents can't appropriate a dollar of tax payers money, only Congressmen can; and Congress is susceptible to all sorts of influences that have nothing to do with good government.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, President, Dollars

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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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• I will continue my consistent record of voting for lower taxes, less spending and fewer regulations to make our government more effective and efficient while upholding our Constitution.

  Roscoe Bartlett

  Government, Voting, Records

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• Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion.

  Ben Quayle

  Math, Government, Years

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• The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best fighting force the world had ever known, they were getting their asses kicked by illiterate peasants who made bombs out of manure and wood.

  Michael Hastings

  Military, Fighting, Reality

  Michael Hastings (2012). “The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan”, p.203, Penguin

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• I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.

  Mickey Kaus

  Energy, Republican, More Time

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• Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Sensual, Together, Different

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax

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• Kaizen means ongoing improvement involving everybody, without spending much money.

  Masaaki Imai

  Mean, Kaizen, Ongoing

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• As I presided over Massie's execution, I thought about the abuse and neglect he endured as a child in the foster care system. We failed to keep him safe, and our failure contributed to who he was as an adult. Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars to kill him, what if we spent that money on other foster children so that we stop producing men like Massie in the first place?

  Jeanne Woodford

  Children, Men, What If

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• Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims.

  Gil Garcetti

  Dollars, Law Enforcement, Crime

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• Domestic travel and tourism-related spending has reached $1 trillion a year.

  Mark Foley

  Years, Tourism, Related

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• He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.

  Linda McCartney

  Writing, Mad, Tunes

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• I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Class, Recycling, Week

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• After spending most of her life scanning the horizon for slights and threats, genuine and imagined, she knew the real threat to her happiness came not from the dot in the distance, but from looking for it. Expecting it. Waiting for it. And in some cases, creating it. Her father had jokingly accused her of living in the wreckage of her future. Until one day she'd looked deep into his eyes and saw he wasn't joking. He was warning her.

  Louise Penny

  Life, Distance, Father

  Louise Penny (2014). “The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.22, Macmillan

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• Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

  "Planned Chaos". Book by Ludwig von Mises, 1947.

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• Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

  Albert Camus

  Self, Giving, Solitude

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• How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose - and fearing that they will make us lose?

  Alfie Kohn

  Trying, Energy, Loses

  Alfie Kohn (2013). “No Contest: The Case Against Competition”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.

  Ken Blackwell

  Government, Order, Growth

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• My kids that's their backyard. I think when they're adults, their memories will be mostly of spending time at beach, the exploration, the freedom that you have. You take care of your house that you live in and we make our bed and we clean our cars and we do all that stuff, but yet we neglect sort of the place that really provides us with the greatest form of sustainability, which is the ocean.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Beach, Memories, Ocean

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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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• We must look forward to the future as that is where most of us will be spending the rest of our lives.

  Charles Kettering

  Looks, Our Lives

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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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