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“To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.”

Men Giving Real Answers Pay Silence Fire Higher Promise Paper Paid Charity Payment Bribe Sufferers Postponement

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“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.”

Believe Values I Believe Pay Half Ought Amount Citizens Taxes Ordinary Paid Compare Proportion Wealthy Estates Millionaire Ordinary Citizens

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“No capitalists after any war were ever so well paid for money loaned to the nation that carried it on. No class of money-makers ever gained such prosperity by any other war, as our War for the Union brought to the money-getters of America. All this was due in great measure to the rank and file of the Union army. Now let no rich man haggle with a needy veteran of that war about his right to a pension!”

Men Wells War America Nations Class Rich Army Paid Unions Prosperity Dues Makers Capitalist Veteran Files Needy Rich Man Pension Money Maker

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work.”

Made Beautiful Paid Fortune Ill Ugly Curious Beautiful Things Ugliness

Author:E. Nesbit

“If we release our fixed ideas about how the world should appear, desires can simply fall away. Our attention is paid to releasing, not wanting to release.”

Ifs World Should Ideas Desire Fall Attention Angel Paid Release Fixed

Author:Angelina Love

“Paul Revere earned his living as a silversmith. But what do we remember him for? His volunteer work. All activism is volunteering in that it's done above and beyond earning a living and deals with what people really care passionately about. Remember, no one gets paid to rebel. All revolutions start with volunteers.”

People Done Helping Care Remember Deals Revolution Paid Activism Helping Others Rebel Volunteer Earning Volunteerism Above And Beyond Earning A Living Volunteer Work

Author:Susan J. Ellis

“Is the price of sin something that can be paid off like a debt?”

Sin Drama Paid Debt Paid Off

Author:Jo Min-Hyuk

“Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.”

Mean Success Culture Interest Talent Position Accounts Paid Fancy Sanity Superficial

Book:The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.”

War Ends Battle Cost Conflict Paid Buried

Book:The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2

Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2

“... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other women have voiced their opposition and paid the price: they have been ostracized and branded as either man- haters or pawns of white feminists, two of the more predictable modes of disciplining and discrediting black feminists.”

“A freelance is one who gets paid by the word -- per piece or perhaps.”

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Author:Robert Benchley

“Work-get paid; don't work-don't get paid. Everybody is on commission”

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Author:Dave Ramsey

“If there is no cost to be paid for the indiscriminate dumping of pollution into the earth's atmosphere, then it should be a surprise to no one that today we will dump another 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet. ... We have to [act] this year, not next year. Mother Nature does not do bailouts.”

Ifs Should Years Doe Today Earth Mother Next Millions Planets Cost Paid Surprise Atmosphere Global Warming Pollution Shells Our Planet Next Year Mother Nature Dump Bailouts

Author:Al Gore

“I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.”

Firsts Film Paid Lowest

Author:Jonathan Rhys Meyers

“If we inspire people, they will give us more than we asked for. If we manipulate them, they will give us exactly what we paid for”

People Ifs Giving Inspire Paid Manipulation Manipulate

Author:Simon Sinek

“The Holocaust may belong to history, but it was the price we paid to become a nation. Auschwitz was like a cradle of death that enabled future generations of Israelis to live.”

May Nations Generations Paid Israel Holocaust Future Generation Cradle Auschwitz

Author:Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

“you can't live life without consequences. They occur regardless of the decision. A consequence is an outcome, good or bad. You can live life without regrets and thats what makes it worth it. Or you could live with regret and end up hanging yourself but thats still good. You paid for the rope so your feeding someones family. Something to be proud of before you kick the bucket”

Life Stills Ends Decision Regret Proud Consequence Paid Live Life Outcomes Kicks Worth It Be Proud Feeding Rope Buckets

Author:George Orwell

“Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. The heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture of society is that it is commonplace. Our fancied superiority to others is in some one thing which we think most of because we excel in it, or have paid most attention to it; whilst we overlook their superiority to us in something else which they set equal and exclusive store by.”

Thinking Men Hard Levels Attention Wise Imagine One Thing Fool Mets Equal Paid Absolutes Surface Stores Giants Superiority Exclusive Commonplace Texture Dwarfs

Author:William Hazlitt

“Workplaces need to respond to the reality of family life in the 21st century, and allowing employees to have seven sick days a year is a bare minimum, the fact that the United States is one of just a handful of countries that does not require paid family or sick leave is nothing short of shameful.”

“Without new money, salaries won't be paid, the health system will stop functioning, the power network and public transport will break down, and they won't be able to import vital goods because nobody can pay.”

Able Pay Break Health Paid Down And Goods Breaking Down Salary Transport Imports Health System

Author:Martin Schulz

“Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.”

World Needs Winning Sports Decision Honor Ultimate Paid Competition Wrestling Olympics Athletic Prestigious Athletic Competition

Author:Dan Gable

“There is a price to be paid for fabricating around us a society which is as artifical and as mechanized as our own, and this is that we can exist in it only on condition that we adapt ourselves to it. This is our punishment.”

Conditions Paid Environmental Punishment Stewardship

Author:Philip Sherrard

“What can be done? Well, the governments of the world can undertake what amounts to a vast clean-up campaign and a vast campaign of organic renewal. The problem is the cost of an effective operation, which is enormous, and thus must be paid by someone via some form of taxes.”

World Wells Done Problem Government Form Amount Cost Taxes Paid Clean Environmental Campaigns Enormous Operations Pollution Renewal

Book:The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World

Source: The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World

“I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of Bowling Green Street, Leith, went bust. If they hadn't folded, I'd probably still be scaffolding and loving it.”

Ifs Stills Week Streets Paid Green Winter Firm Lots Of Money Bowling Paid Off Scaffolding

Author:Jamie Sives

“I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.”

Should Believe I Believe Drug Essentials Paid Available Invention Saving Royalty Payment Suitable Innovators Life Saving

Author:Yusuf Hamied

“There's not like a science to it, necessarily, but I'm also the kind of person who spends a long time in the studio. I will spend my entire advance just getting it done, which is probably stupid, but I don't have extravagant taste. I mean, I paid for it, so there you go. Why not? The recording process is also very fun.”

Kind Mean Persons Long Done Fun Process Stupid Taste Long Time Paid Studios Why Not Extravagant

Author:Neko Case

“Social Security is meant to be - to make sure that no one who's worked hard, and played by the rules, and paid into the system grows old in poverty in America.”

Hard America Social Grows Poverty Security Paid Meant To Be Social Security Poverty In America

Author:Chris Christie

“The fair (ph) transforms the process by which we fund Social Security and Medicare because the money paid in consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers, all the people that are freeloading off the system now.”

People Social Process Security Drug Fairs Paid Including Fund Consumption Social Security Medicare Dealer Pimp Drug Dealers

Author:Mike Huckabee

“When I was meeting people in L.A., guys always thought if they paid for dinner, they deserved a blow job. But generally, I'll say this - and I'll say it proudly - I can't sleep with someone if I don't have a connection with them.”

People Ifs I Can Jobs Guy Sleep Connections Paid Meetings Blow Dinner Can't Sleep I Can't Sleep Blow Job

Author:Katy Perry

“I retired once but you've got to have something to retire to and I don't want to do anything. My job is like a well paid hobby, I mean not a hobby but I'm not lining up every morning at the bus queue to go to work. I'm very lucky.”

Want Wells Mean Jobs Morning Lucky Paid Bus Retiring Every Morning Hobbies Retired Queues Lining Up

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“Theater is completely different from film or television. It has a beginning and a middle and an end and it's different every night. And it's far preferable to any other except in the sense of not getting paid, people who want to eat should do film and television.”

People Want Should Different Ends Film Night Middle Television Paid Theater Every Night Film And Television

Author:Richard Dreyfuss

“It's great to be paid, but it's better to do something original that's going to be memorable.”

Paid Originals Memorable

Author:Jon Gries

“Radio is paid by advertising. They decide what songs to play that'll keep people listening. And that's what promoters and the Classic Rock people do.”

People Play Song Rocks Listening Paid Radio Advertising Classic Promoters Classic Rock

Author:George Thorogood

“He [Barack Obama] talked about deficit reduction. This got me he was talking about how the deficit's being reduced faster in the last 60 years. That's because he's collected more taxes. That's like bragging that you paid your rent after you robbed a bank. It makes no sense.”

Years Lasts Talking Taxes Paid Barack Faster Deficit Reduction Bragging

Author:Barack Obama

“My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That's what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.”

Men Parent My Own Pay Taught Married Paid Bills Rely

Author:Bette Midler

“I went to art school for about a year. I was born and raised in the Willamette Valley in Oregon into a middle-class family who didn't have the funds to say, "Here, kid. Here's your money for school." So I worked real hard during the summer and saved money and was able to go to school for a year and borrowed a little money which I paid back after that first year.”

“In most companies, the corporate mentality is if you're over 30, you're on the downhill side, and if you're over 40, you're brain dead. Or, if you're over 30 or 40 and you've been doing it for a while, you've got experience and you want to be paid for that experience.”

Ifs Want Sides Brain Company Paid Corporate Mentality Brain Dead

Author:Mike Royer

“I do my job, and I do what I’m paid to do and I’m always prepared. I prepare by learning the text so well that when I show up, I’m relaxed and the performance sort of happens. Now whether that’s good or bad, I don’t know... Whatever I say is going to sound very egocentric and self centered anyway so I’d better shut up.”

Knows Wells Self Shows Jobs Sound Paid Prepared Focused Shut Up Relaxed Self Centered Egocentric

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“When things don't go well they like to blame presidents; and that's something that presidents are paid for.”

Wells President Paid Blame Presidency

Author:John F. Kennedy

“One thing my mother always instilled in me is to always know my worth. Don't settle for less. She used to say to me 'Iman, no is a complete sentence, learn to say no. You don't have to explain it you don't have to say anything after it. It's a complete sentence.' So when I came to America 1975, I found out that the black models were being paid less than white models. So the first thing I did was say I'm not going to do the job unless I'm paid the same amount.”

Knows Firsts Jobs America Used Mother Found Black White One Thing Amount Models Paid Sentences Settling Say Anything Iman Learn To Say No

Author:Iman Abdulmajid

“Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother, so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally. I wasn't as close to her then as I nowadays, in retrospect, wish I had been.”

Mother Wish Paid Retrospect

Author:Gloria Steinem

“It still makes me giggle that I'm paid to act.”

Stills Paid Giggle

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“Filmmaking is like playing in your imagination and getting paid to do it. I guess I'll ride this horse until it bucks me.”

Imagination Horse Paid Filmmaking Bucks

Author:Nicholas Ozeki

“Culture dictated from above is the enemy of folk music. Whether it's stuffy classical music or pre-engineered pop where somebody's paid tons of money to make sure that everyone hears this song a certain number of times a day - that feels like the opposite of folk music.”

Feels Certain Song Culture Numbers Enemy Opposites Paid Folks Pops Classical Music Folk Music

Author:Will Sheff

“I'm not really a political-type person, meaning that I don't really make great stands or whatever, but if you ask me a direct question I say it shouldn't matter who you are, whether you're black, white, green, gay, male, female. If you can do a job and do it well you should be paid for it, you should be respected for it, and you have to be responsible. I think sometimes people can go too fare trying to make a point. I think they should just make their point and go on about.”

“It's astonishing how many business owners are terrified of selling. Salespeople who see the most people a day are the highest paid regardless of the economy.”

People Economy Highest Paid Selling Owners Terrified Astonishing Business Owners Salespeople

Author:Brian Tracy

“There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.”

Way Giving Care Values Hours Simple Economic Amount Taxes Sick Paid Gender Flexible Gender Equality Economic Value Sick Leave

Author:Gloria Steinem

“However, to be a coach I think you have to have a lot of patience. You have to understand what they have going on in their lives and it's a very rewarding career but you also need to know that your not going to get paid a ton of money and you have to be patient with people and a good listener.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Careers Paid Patient Coaches Listeners Be Patient Good Listener

Author:Robin Farina

“I love people. I love understanding people, why they do the things they do, and why they make the decisions they make. It kind of just over time escalated into realizing that I could... experience that interest and get paid at the same time.”

People Kind Understanding Interest Realizing Decision Paid

Author:Charlie Barnett

“Most Americans stopped looking at what was happening through a variety of coping mechanisms - starting with women entering paid work and then everyone working longer hours and using their homes for raising equity and generating more money through debt. The typical household basically staved off the day of reckoning.”

Home Hours Happenings Paid Starting Debt Variety Mechanism Household More Money Typical Entering Equity Coping Reckoning Coping Mechanisms

Author:Robert Reich

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