Surplus Quotes

• Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Time, Community

  "Wealth," North American Review, June 1889

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• If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

  Charles Dickens

  Population, Scrooge, Christmas Carol

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.9

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• A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Focus And Concentration, Data, Essentials

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• Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Freedom, Political, Politics

  David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers

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• 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.

  Bennie Thompson

  Education, Drug, Quality

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• Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dog, Literature, World

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.48, 谷月社

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• A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.

  John C. Calhoun

  Powerful, Government, People

  John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

  Daniel Yergin

  Oil, Shortage, Cycles

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• 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.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Slave Labor, Land, Raw Materials

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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.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Want, Democrat

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• The alarm must be sounded because it is the economic and social system of capitalism and imperialism that prevents the urgently needed full mobilization of the potential economic surplus and the attainment of rates of economic advancement that can be secured with its help.

  Paul A. Baran

  Alarms, Advancement, Helping

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.244, NYU Press

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• I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Years, Drawing

  Sir Winston Churchill (1951). “A Roving Commission”

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• Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

  Cyril Connolly

  Peace, War, Morbid

  Cyril Connolly (1946). “The Condemned Playground”

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• By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all "respectability" to the distinction between essential and non-essential consumption, between productive and unproductive labor, between actual and potential surplus.

  Paul A. Baran

  Essentials, Roles, Economics

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.25, NYU Press

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• Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.

  Benjamin Graham

  Conservative, Transformation, Realizing

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham, Part I, Chapter I, The Changing Role of Surplus Stocks, p. 17, 1937.

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• The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't win. Prison is lack of alternatives, and the telescopic predictability of the future is what drives you crazy.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Crazy, Winning, Space

  "Less Than One: Selected Essays". p. 28. Book by Joseph Brodsky, 1986.

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• In numerous years following the war, the Federal Government ran a heavy surplus. It could not (however) pay off its debt, retire its securities, because to do so meant there would be no bonds to back the national bank notes. To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Money, War, Government

  "Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter VIII, "The Great Compromise," p. 90, 1975.

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• The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Art, Soul

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.31, Heron Dance Press

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• The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.

  Walter Weyl

  Philosophy, Shapes, Tradition

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• 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.

  Wendell Berry

  Animal, Two, Water

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.54, Counterpoint

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• I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Simple, New Job

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• 'Code sharing' is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form of need.

  Erik Naggum

  People, Needs, Economic

  "Realistic but short and simple LISP examples?". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. December 19, 2001.

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

  Jim Cooper

  Government, President, Able

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• I hope that there will be no particular need for us to attract external funding. It is worth noting that despite the fact the turnover is smaller now we are still maintaining a trade surplus.

  Vladimir Putin

  Needs, Maintaining, Facts

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Those who have left to seek entry under this new system - and it will be an efficient system - will not be awarded surplus visas, but will have to apply for entry under the immigration caps or limits that will be established in the future.

  Donald Trump

  Immigration, Limits, Caps

  "Transcript of Donald Trump's Immigration Speech". www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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