Expenses Quotes
565 Expenses quotes by 457 unique authors
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any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense
— John Wilmot
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It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than…
— Adam Smith
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Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great…
— Baltasar Gracian
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheep’s clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume." On my cenotaph, you mean. Nobody will be…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against…
— Samuel Adams
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But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed,…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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May the IRS find that you deduct your pet sheep as an entertainment expense.
— Christopher Moore
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Is this what you have in mind,' I asked the Dalai Lama, 'when you say in teachings that the buddhas and bodhisattvas of the world…
— Dalai Lama
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Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.
— Ayn Rand
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And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which…
— Susan Sontag
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Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and…
— Julia Child
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To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I…
— C.S. Lewis
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protected businesses never, never become competitive ... Halliburton, Bechtel, Parsons, KPMG, RTI, Blackwater and all other U.S. corporations that were in Iraq to take advantage…
— Naomi Klein
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[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have…
— John Adams
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If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.
— Sue Grafton
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who…
— F. Sionil José
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But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.
— Patrick O'Brian
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