“We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he that pays the price.” GovernmentFormFightingPayOrdinarySickTiredUnityCorruptionPay The PriceAfghanNational Unity Author:Ashraf Ghani
“The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.” IfsDoeArtPayTaxesOrdinaryBlokes Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle of life to pay due attention to the strength of the body. They may take daily what they consider a sufficient amount of exercise; but the exercise is not calculated to keep the various limbs and muscles, still less the internal organs, in proper working order. Amid the ordinary concerns of life the man may appear strong, even stalwart. But when occasion arises for some special muscular exercise, or taxing the action of some organ, he finds out his weakness.” MenMayStillsBodyAgeActionPastOrderStrongPayAttentionStruggleMiddleSpecialYouthHe ManAmountExerciseOrdinaryWeaknessConcernVariousDuesAriseOccasionsSufficientEngagedMusclesInternalsOrgansLimbsMiddle AgesLife StruggleStalwart Author:Richard A. Proctor
“Is this not true--That in proportion to the value of their estates the extremely wealthy pay far less taxes than those of moderatemeans? Compare the amount paid by millionaires with the amount paid by ordinary citizens. I believe that in proportion to their estates they pay less than half as much as ordinary citizens, whereas they ought to pay more.” BelieveValuesI BelievePayHalfOughtAmountCitizensTaxesOrdinaryPaidCompareProportionWealthyEstatesMillionaireOrdinary Citizens Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“If you have free universal health care and free education supported by public school taxes, then you have more bargaining power with your bosses, but if everything is privatized, and ordinary Americans have to pay for everything through their wages, then they're at the mercy of their employers. If the workers know they'll be ruined if they lost their jobs, they're not going to be uppity. You want to break their spirit.” IfsKnowsWantCareSchoolJobsSpiritLostPayEducationBreakHealthTaxesOrdinaryMercyUniversalWorkersHealth CareBossWagesRuinedEmployersPublic SchoolBargainingFree EducationUniversal Health Care Author:Michael Lind
“An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.” ImportantCertainPayAmountOrdinaryInnate Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I'm actually very ordinary, except people get to pay their money to come watch me work. The same way that we go to McDonald's.. we don't care about the guy behind the counter, but if he was doing something special, we'd pay our money to go watch him cook that hamburger.” PeopleIfsWayCareGuyPayBehindsWatchesSpecialOrdinaryDon't CareCooksMcdonaldsSomething SpecialHamburgersWatch Me Author:Samuel L. Jackson
“I don't want to pay good money to hear ordinary people's lunatic views. Most of the people who phone in are [lunatics] - certainly in Britain.” PeopleWantViewsPayOrdinaryPhonesBritainOrdinary PeopleLunaticGood Money Author:John Gimlette
“Ordinary Americans can't pollute for free. You can't dump your trash on the sidewalk or throw all your refuse into your neighbor's yard. I don't understand why corporate polluters should be allowed to dump megatons of carbon, the most dangerous pollution in the history of the world, into our thin shell of an atmosphere, and not pay a penny to do it.” WorldShouldPayDangerousOrdinaryRefuseNeighborCorporateAtmospherePollutionShellsYardsCarbonWorld HistoryTrashPenniesDumpSidewalk Author:Van Jones
“People are hungry, and they're hurting and they're very, very worried about their children. Will their kids ever pay off their student debt? Will their kids ever get a decent-paying job? I think Democrats have got to be running a grass-roots campaign - mobilizing people and being prepared to take on the 1 percent with an agenda that speaks to the needs of ordinary workers.” PeopleThinkingNeedsChildrenRunningKidsJobsSpeakHurtPayStudentsOrdinaryPercentRootsPreparedDemocratWorkersDebtCampaignsHungryWorriedGrassDecentAgendas Author:Bernie Sanders
“If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.” PeopleIfsMadeCountryFactsBigsWould BePayHigherTaxesOrdinaryGainsRateIncomeSecretaryPercentagesChunksBuffettCapital Gains Author:Michael Bloomberg
“All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.” PeopleWantLeftForceCommonPayGroupsOrdinarySoldierDeterminedLeft AloneSmall Groups Book:Empire Source: Empire
“The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life.” PurposePayAttentionPracticeMeditationEventsBearsMindfulnessOrdinaryEnlightenmentExtraordinaryPay AttentionOrdinary LifeMeditation Practice Author:Peter Matthiessen