The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that… — James Prescott Joule Copy Share Image
The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits. — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical… — Confucius Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] supports the modernization of the U.S. nuclear arsenal, while complaining about budget expenditures. He presumably intends to go forward with… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
We need to prioritize those expenditures of the federal government in A, B and C priorities... And I believe that on the… — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'paycheck to paycheck.' Studies show that every… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
The physiological law of Transfer of Energy is the basis of human success and happiness. There is no action without expenditure of… — David Starr Jordan Copy Share Image
Take Washington, D.C., which spends over $10,000 per student for education whose student achievement would be dead last if Mississippi chose to… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The alternatives [to the stimulus packages] were to do nothing or, worse, effectively replicate the Premiers' Plan of 1931 when governments cut… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
What really gets me is this - it's very ironic that those who are most critical of extra tax are those who… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I'm very skeptical of the amount of money that goes into military expenditure, not just in the poor countries [but] also in… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A comprehensive national energy policy is critical to our nation's economy and our national security. Energy expenditures account for about 7% percent… — Heather Wilson Copy Share Image
The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
“With this latest largesse, public expenditures have tripled since 2004, while the private sector’s contribution to non-oil GDP has stagnated.” — Karen Elliott House Copy Share Image
Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
There is an unearthly, mystical element in Friedman's thought. The mere existence of a stock of money somehow promotes expenditure. But insofar… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee… — Rumi Copy Share Image
When you start cutting government expenditure, at some point you are cutting essential services rather than excessive services. So you have to… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
I want to remind you all that in order to fight and win the war, it requires an expenditure of money that… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
When the government is trying to penny-pinch and, at the same time, trying to keep a defense expenditure and so forth, which… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Our Lord’s teaching is always anti-self-realization. His purpose is not the development of a man; His purpose is to make a man… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Both [Donald] Trump and Hillary [Clinton] want bigger military budgets and Hillary supports President Obama's one trillion dollar expenditure to so-called upgrade… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
America does not need to be worried with bailing out a European country that has made irresponsible expenditures, and then all of… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have… — Chaka Fattah Copy Share Image
We have decreased the salaries of everybody who partakes in politics, from the president to the prime minister to the MPs [members… — Antonis Samaras Copy Share Image
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