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“A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.”

Science Technology Successful Generations Standards Discovery Investment Population Rising Factories Workplace Infrastructure Science And Technology Surplus New Discoveries Discovery In Science

Author:Robert Trout

“In order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets. [...] The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.”

Said War Country Order United Millions Land Population Kingdoms Bread Settling Civil War Acquire Empires Forty Bloody Statesmen Surplus United Kingdom Bread And Butter

Author:Cecil Rhodes

“Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a Speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one.”

“How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won't be room for us.”

Evil Rooms Hell Population These Days Surplus Queues

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“God is the source of my supply. His riches flow to me freely, copiously, and abundantly. All my financial and other needs are met at every moment of time and point of space; there is always a divine surplus.”

Needs Moments Space Divine Source Mets Flow Financial Riches Surplus

Author:Joseph Murphy

“Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.”

Oil Cycles Shortage Surplus

Author:Daniel Yergin

“Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the new is the same as acquiring value... If the purchase of a new garment coincides with the wearing out of an old one, then obviously there is no fashion. If a garment is worn beyond the moment of its natural replacement, there is pauperization. Fashion flourishes on surplus, when someone buys more than he or she needs.”

Ifs Needs Moments Values Natural Fashion Expression Birth Capitalism Assuming Intense Phenomenon Worn Garments Surplus Replacements Purchasing Old Fashion

Author:Stephen Bayley

“The nature of business and government has been to build a surplus and self-perpetuate, but the Internet fosters and rewards smaller, more fluid organizations.”

Has Beens Self Government Internet Organization Rewards Fluid Surplus

Author:Esther Dyson

“A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of whirlwinds swirling in one’s mind, one thinks of a way out, or a way in: out of the scorching bosom of a volcano, and in – into the centre of a raging hurricane. And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease, the odds and ends of your mental surplus you carelessly throw at the world, one wants to be at a loss, in a maze; amazed, and amazingly unabashed.”

“Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.”

Life May Stories Today Given Future Died Harmony Regard Surplus Future Time

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.”

Inspiring Effort Overcoming Deficit Surplus

Book:My Beloved World

Source: My Beloved World

“A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.”

Ideas Common Taxes Program Common Sense Reform Balanced Revenue Surplus Tax Reform

Author:Andrew Mellon

“In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042.”

Shows Running Social President Opinion Security Addresses Fund Social Security Funding Hype Surplus Social Service

Author:Nick Clooney

“President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.”

Government Able President Achieve Clinton Despite Budgets Divided Surplus President Clinton Divided Government

Author:Jim Cooper

“Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion.”

Years Country Running Lasts Years Ago Clinton Billions Administration Surplus

Author:John Spratt

“We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.”

Lines Cutting Amount Taxes Paid Add Bottom Debt Sooner Or Later Deficit Bottom Line Tax Cuts Surplus National Debt

Author:John Spratt

“People who truly have control over time always have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. A sense of priorities drives their use of time and it can shift away from the ordinary work that’s easy to justify, in favor of the more ethereal, deeper things that are harder to justify. They protect their time from trivia and idiocy; these people are time rich. They provide themselves with a surplus of time. They might seem to idle, or relax more often than the rest, but that just might be a sign of their mastery, not their incompetence.”

People Needs Giving Use Seems Might Easy Rich Protect Ordinary Harder Deeper Favors Priorities Relax Pockets Justify Mastery Idle Incompetence Surplus Idiocy Ethereal Trivia Use Of Time

Author:Scott Berkun

“Food that is necessary for man’s existence is as sacred as life itself. Everything that is indispensable for its preservation is the common property of society as a whole. It is only the surplus that is private property and can be safely left to individual commercial enterprise.”

Men Whole Individual Left Common Existence Sacred Property Enterprise Indispensable Preservation Private Property Surplus

Author:Maximilien Robespierre

“Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to pollute the water supply, nor depended on such quantities of commercial fertilizer. The genius of American farm experts is very well demonstrated here: they can take a solution and divide it neatly into two problems.”

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“We establish a connection with the unknown through the act of giving something and, paradoxically, the act of destroying something. That is what is behind sacrifice. What you offer and what you destroy, it is that surplus which is life itself.”

Giving Behinds Sacrifice Offers Connections Destroying Surplus

Author:Roberto Calasso

“It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.”

People Dies Four Months Cost Percent Aids Ships Surplus Shipping

Author:Andrew Natsios

“Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena”

Form Values Essence Rate Profit Surface Invisible Visible Surplus

Book:Capital: a critique of political economy

Source: Capital: a critique of political economy

“Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.”

Wells Ends Process Lines Plant Flaws Flawed Counting Surplus Power Plants

Author:Gray Davis

“Nervous energy is the ammunition we take into any mental battle. If you don't have enough of it, your concentration will fade. If you have a surplus, the results will explode.”

Ifs Enough Success Energy Results Battle Chess Nervous Concentration Fades Surplus Ammunition

Author:Garry Kasparov

“Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.”

Wealth Sacred Surplus

Author:Andrew Carnegie

“No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential. This is especially true of science and technology, where women with a surplus of talent still face a deficit of opportunity.”

Stills Country Faces Opportunity Technology Talent Industry Deficit Science And Technology Surplus Full Potential

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus.”

Years Moving Process Series Budgets Heels Deficit High Heels Surplus

Author:John Spratt

“Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.”

“The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.”

Source: Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization

“The noblest relationship is marriage, that is, love. Its nobility resides in its altruism, the desire to serve another beyond all the pleasures of the relationship; and in its refusal ever to regard the other as a thing, an object, a utilizability. Sex is an exchange of pleasures, of needs; love is a giving without return. It is this giving without return, this helping without reward, this surplus of pure good, that identifies the uniqueness of man as well as the true nature of the true marriage. This is the quintessence the great alchemy of sex is for.”

Men Love Needs Giving Wells Helping Age Desire Sex Love Is Pleasure Objects Return Pure Regard Rewards Uniqueness Altruism Nobility Refusal Alchemy True Nature Surplus Need Love Quintessence

Author:John Fowles

“The truth is, you leave this world with nothing. What you are is a temporary administrator, and you must administer well... the wealth in your care, and generate more. The surplus can be used to do many things for people.”

People World Wells Care Used Wealth This World Truth Is Temporary Philanthropy Surplus Administrators

Author:Carlos Slim

“The rich man never really gives anything, he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate means who really gives.”

Men Giving Mean Persons Rich Philanthropy Moderates Rich Man Surplus

Author:George Eastman

“Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do it without some shoe leather.”

Said War Running Wanted Sells Shoes Administration Corporations Assets Boots Leather Surplus

Author:Stuart Symington

“People say that poverty is bad, but in fact poverty is good. The poorer people are, the more revolutionary they are. It is dreadful to imagine a time when everyone will be rich... From a surplus of calories people will have two heads and four legs.”

People Two Facts Poverty Rich Four Imagine Legs Revolutionary Calories Surplus Two Heads

Author:Mao Zedong

“I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.”

School Military Clothes Army Stores Germany Surplus

Author:Debby Ryan

“Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.”

World Country Land Population East World History Crowded Surplus

Book:Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis

Source: Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis

“Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable.”

May Dies Sides Poor Mathematics Population Uncles Decrease Arithmetic Surplus Impeccable Scrooge

Book:The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories

Source: The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories

“As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.”

Made States Left Easy Cutting Taxes Raised Eight Budgets Balanced Initiative Governors Indiana Surplus

Author:Evan Bayh

“The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.”

People Past Common Pay Responsibility Return Congress Common Sense Budgets Surplus Fiscal Responsibility

Author:Melissa Bean

“The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.”

Doe Facts Values Taken Advantage Obvious Labour Capitalist Surplus Workmen Taken Advantage

Book:My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes

Source: My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes

“I actually don't have a great surplus of ideas. Some evolve very slowly, over many years, but I sort of trust that all of the interesting ones will become something that I eventually end up doing.”

Years Ideas Ends Interesting Evolve Surplus

Author:Miranda July

“Mitt Romney has a history of being a great job creator. Secondly, he was a great governor. He went from billions of dollars in the hole when he became governor to billions of dollars in surplus when he left. And he went from the loss of tens of thousands jobs when he became governor to the creation of 40,000 new jobs when he left office.”

Jobs Left Loss Creation Office Dollars Creator Billions Holes Governors Romney Great Job Surplus New Job Job Creators

Author:John Kasich

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