Expenditure Quotes
94 quotes by 90 authors
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The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed…
— Chester A. Arthur
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Clean water is not an expenditure of Federal funds; clean water is an investment in the future of our country.
— Bud Shuster
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The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable…
— James Prescott Joule
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The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more expenditure . .…
— Livy
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Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought.
— Ernst Mach
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The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to the Supreme is a liberation or expenditure of force; it cannot fail to reach that…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes
— Murray Edelman
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Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or even by grave…
— Herbert Croly
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We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an…
— Calvin Coolidge
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What is the single most important thing for a company? Is it the building? Is it the stock? Is it the turnover? It’s the people,…
— Ricky Gervais
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The alternatives [to the stimulus packages] were to do nothing or, worse, effectively replicate the Premiers' Plan of 1931 when governments cut expenditure, thereby compounding…
— Kevin Rudd
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I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those…
— Edward Bellamy
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The arrangement was simply FreedomWorks paid Glenn Beck money and Glenn Beck said nice things about FreedomWorks on the air. I saw that a million…
— Dick Armey
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A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical in expenditure, loves…
— Confucius
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Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.
— Anthony Eden
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