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“It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people - and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for this purpose, we should be taxing forty millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.”

People Ifs Should Government Purpose Millions Thousand Hundred Function Employment Appropriate Forty Employed

Author:James A. Garfield

“The burden of the national debt consists not in its being so many millions, or so many hundred millions, but in the quantity of taxes collected every year to pay the interest. If this quantity continue the same, the burden of the national debt is the same to all intents and purposes, be the capital more or less.”

Ifs Years Purpose Interest Pay Millions Taxes Hundred Burden Debt Quantity National Debt

Book:The Rights of Man: With a Brief Historical Preface

Source: The Rights of Man: With a Brief Historical Preface

“I would rather work with five people who really believe in what they are doing rather than five hundred who can't see the point.”

People Believe Purpose Five Hundred

Author:Patrick Dixon

“If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.”

Ifs Years Book Purpose Three Reading Hundred Years Ago Yesterday Printed

Book:Sketches and Essays

Source: Sketches and Essays

“I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.”

Writing Book Reason Purpose Three Four Hundred Add Magnificent Estates Acres

Book:White Fang (Arcadia Classics)

Source: White Fang (Arcadia Classics)

“Two hundred years ago, we were all busy farming and we all had a role to play. The home was a unit of production. We made food and all the things we needed, we took care of our kids and were connected to purpose in our evolution. When the Industrial Revolution came along, it took away a lot of the work the men had done.”

Men Years Made Two Done Play Home Care Kids Purpose Roles He Man Revolution Evolution Needed Hundred Years Ago Busy Productions Connected Units Farming Industrial Revolution

Author:Peter Buffett

“During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.”

Giving Wells Home Purpose Hundred Give Me Affection Indian Pounds Governors Leaving Me Parole Sterling

Book:Daniel Boone: His Own Story

Source: Daniel Boone: His Own Story

“What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. I cannot conscientiously recommend it for any useful purposes whatever. All I can suggest is that when you get tired of reading "the best hundred books," you may take this for half an hour. It will be a change.”

Should May I Can Book Purpose Reading Asks Hours Half Reader Hundred Tired Cows

Book:Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1

Source: Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1

“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”

Love Inspirational Body Purpose Walks Animal Hundred Be Good Your Body Miles Desert Knees Repent Body Love Wild Geese

Book:Dream Work

Source: Dream Work

“Everything in this business makes sense, because it serves a real purpose, fills a need that's a part of living. Even a single nail, like this one, fulfills a function. Drive it into a crucial place and you can depend on it to do a job, keep on doing it for a hundred years to come. Long after we're dead and gone, both of us.”

Needs Years Long Real Jobs Purpose Gone Depends Hundred Function Make Sense Crucial Nails

Book:Psycho: A Novel

Source: Psycho: A Novel

“The most often repeated commandment in the Bible is 'Do not fear.' It's in there over two hundred times. That means a couple of things, if you think about it. It means we are going to be afraid, and it means we shouldn't let fear boss us around. Before I realized we were supposed to fight fear, I thought of fear as a subtle suggestion in our subconscious designed to keep us safe, or more important, keep us from getting humiliated. And I guess it serves that purpose. But fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.”

Source: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life