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«When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.»
Author: Ann Coulter
| Keywords:
at peace, mild, milder, mildest, recession, recessions, surplus, surpluses
«We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.»
Author: Cecil Rhodes
| Keywords:
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«A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.»
Author: Harvey S. Firestone
| About:
Circumstances,
Control,
Opportunity
| Keywords:
controlled, surplus, surpluses
«A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.»
Author: John C. Calhoun
| Keywords:
Banks, cohesive, combined, consisting, risen, surplus, surpluses
«Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.»
Author: Aneurin Bevan
(Politician)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
by-product, economic freedom, surplus, surpluses
«Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| Keywords:
administer, administering, administers, bound, community, possessor, possessors, sacred, surplus, surpluses
«Economists predict that this year's federal surplus will be $120 billion less than predicted in January. The missing $120 billion was reportedly last seen on a date with Congressman Gary Condit.»
Author: Dennis Miller
(Actor, Comedian)
| Keywords:
billion, condit, congressman, congressmen, economists, Federal, Gary, predict, predicted, reportedly, surplus, surpluses, this year
«DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations takes, in the affection of Woman, the place to which there is no human male aspirant. The Dog is a survival --an anachronism. He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
additional, all day long, anachronism, aspirant, deity, designed, divine being, dog days, fat, Fed, feed upon, idle, incarnations, overflow, overflows, place of worship, purchase, recognition, seasoned, smaller, soak, soaked, soaking, Solomon, Solomonic, spin, subsidiary, surplus, surpluses, survival, tail, takes in, The Dog, the Incarnation, toils, tolerant, wag, wagging, wags, wherewith, worked
«Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
boundaries, contains, immediate, overflows, perpetually, pursuing, realization, restlessly, self-realization, surplus, surpluses, time and space, varied
«Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man's civilization is built upon his surplus... In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habit»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
emotional, everyday life, fund, funding, mostly, moved, occupied, outlet, outlets, preservation, seeks, self preservation, surplus, surpluses, The Creation
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