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• Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Inspirational, Humor, Government

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• Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

  Frances Wright

  Liberty, Steps, Injury

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.27

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• I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

  George Osborne

  Damage Is Done, Parliament, Importance

  "George Osborne ordered to repay £1,666 in MPs' expenses" by Andrew Sparrow and Polly Curtis, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2010.

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• I realize what it means to be financially comfortable, and I want to be that. But I'm lucky enough to be in that position. And I'm also careful. I save 38 percent of my earnings after expenses, before taxes.

  David Duval

  Mean, Lucky, Want

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• If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards.

  Suze Orman

  Jobs, Eight, Focus

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• Households and businesses cut expenses every day. Passing a financial down payment alongside the debt limit sends the right message to the public, and gives members of Congress greater comfort, or cover, depending on your perspective.

  John Sununu

  Cutting, Giving, Perspective

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• Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.

  David Wilkerson

  Evil, Energy, Care

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• When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government.

  Grover Cleveland

  Patriotic, Government, People

  Second Annual Message, December 1886.

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• Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing Money, Enemy

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. 2004.

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• I charge my wealthy clients a lot and put 10 per cent in a fund which I use to pay the expenses of my poorer clients. When the government gangs up on the poor schnook in the street, someone has to stand up for him.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Government, Use, Pay

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• I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate.

  Don Rickles

  Dog, Couple, Car

  "Q&A: RICHARD LEWIS AND DON RICKLES : TV's Newest Odd Couple : Mr. Warmth and Mr. Worry may seem an unlikely pair--at first--to portray father and son in Fox's 'Daddy Dearest.'". Interview with Greg Braxton, articles.latimes.com. August 30, 1993.

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• Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivation, Two, Liberty

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.253

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• Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  War, Drug, Worship

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• Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Moments, Spares

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• The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

  Dee Hock

  Law, Income, Substance

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• The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Government, Political, Democracy

  "The Libertarian Reader: Classic and Contemporary Writings from Lao Tzu to". Book by David Boaz, 1997.

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• Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up from less competent people.

  Andrew Mellon

  Real, Live Life, Hard Work

  "The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover - The Great Depression, 1929-1941". Book by Herbert Hoover, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1951.

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• Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, War, People

  C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

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• Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Talking, Favors, Wit

  "Pensées Diverses" by Baron de Montesquieu, 1879.

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• Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God.

  George Ripley

  Perfect, Thank God, Stones

  George Ripley (2014). “Liber Secretissumus”, p.3, Volume Edizioni srl

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• Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Witty, Sex, Ridiculous

  Attributed in W. Somerset Maugham, Christmas Holiday (1939)

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• Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.

  John Wanamaker

  Lying, Believe, Hype

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• We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used to rebuild Iraq - that is, to rebuild Iraq for the Iraqi people.

  Arlen Specter

  Military, Oil, Iraq

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• Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.

  Wim Wenders

  Beautiful, Writing, Bags

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.

  Byron Dorgan

  Cutting, Government, Tough Times

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