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“It took the national debt two hundred years to reach $1 trillion. Supply Side Economics quadrupled the national debt to over $4 trillion in twelve years (1980-1992) under the Republicans. Bill Clinton actually paid down the national debt. How did he do it? He raised taxes. It produced the longest sustained economic expansion in U.S. History.”

Years Two Sides Economic Republican Taxes Hundred Economics Paid Bills Clinton Raised Debt Twelve Expansion National Debt Supply Side Economics

Book:Straight Talk from the Heartland: Tough Talk, Common Sense, and Hope from a Former Conservative

Source: Straight Talk from the Heartland: Tough Talk, Common Sense, and Hope from a Former Conservative

“What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me.”

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Author:Ralph Steadman

“The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they contributed to its progress. The rising enrollment of women in the paid labor force is a straightforward consequence of the industrial revolution of two hundred years ago.”

“I am not a believer in large salaries. I hold that every man should be paid for personal production. Our big men at Bethlehem seldom get salaries of over one hundred dollars a week; but all of them receive bonuses computed entirely on the efficiencies and the economies registered in their departments.”

Men Should Bigs Economy Week Hundred Paid Dollars Productions Believer Every Man Department Efficiency Salary Bonus Bethlehem

Book:Succeeding With What You Have

Source: Succeeding With What You Have

“Not too many people work in a job where, waiting out there are three or four hundred people who are paid to tear apart what you've done. And often they are brighter than you are, or they know more about the subject than you do, or they wish they had written a book themselves, or done a lot better. Or they just don't like it! And you have to live with it.”

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Author:James A. Michener

“What did I want with prestige? The British Open paid the winner $600 in American money. A man would have to be two hundred years old at that rate to retire from golf.”

Men Want Years Two Hundred Paid Golf Rate British Winner Retiring Prestige

Author:Sam Snead

“One of my great surprises when I was in America was about twenty-five years ago in Harvard, hearing Randall Jarrell deliver a bitter attack on the way poets were neglected. Yet there were about two thousand people present, and he was being paid five hundred dollars for delivering this attack.”

People Way Years Two America Five Poet Thousand Hundred Years Ago Paid Twenties Dollars Surprise Hearing Bitter Five Years Neglected Harvard Twenty Five Delivering

Author:Stephen Spender

“I have a library room with four desks in it. On one of them is a spec, on one of them is a present work, on one of them is reading for a future work, on another desk is a novel I'm not doing until I'm a hundred and fifty, and things like that. But, contractually speaking, you just do one at a time when it's on and paid and live. You do your real day on one project and the rest is just literary life. Or intrusions.”

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Author:William Monahan

“Sometimes the unexpected does happen. Once, this exquisite woman fell for me. After we made love, she gave me a check for a hundred dollars. I said, "Honey, I don't get paid for sex." She said, "This is hush money."”

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Author:Ronnie Shakes

“We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then --?' 'We believed your two hundred dollars.' 'You mean --' She seemed not to know what he meant. 'I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly, 'and enough more to make it all right.”

Ifs Knows Believe Mean Two Enough Stories Hundred Paid Dollars Telling The Truth

Author:Dashiell Hammett