Surplus Quotes - Page 5

• We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Nations, Seeing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.340, Penguin

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• A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Inspiring, Effort, Overcoming

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.115, Vintage

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

  Andrew Mellon

  Ideas, Common Sense, Reform

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• 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.

  Nick Clooney

  Running, Hype, President

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• 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.

  John Spratt

  Running, Country, Years

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• 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.

  John Spratt

  Cutting, Add, Debt

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• Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed.

  James Buchan

  Fall, Oil, Middle East

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• 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.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Men, Sacred, Common

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• 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.

  Roberto Calasso

  Sacrifice, Giving, Connections

  "Roberto Calasso speaks on 'The Last Superstition'". The Paris Review interview, bookhaven.stanford.edu.

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• 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.

  Andrew Natsios

  People, Cost, Four

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• There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

  Nick Cave

  Pain, Guarantees In Life, One Thing

  "Feelings are a Bourgeois luxury". Interview with Lindsay Baker, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2003.

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• In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always agree, but we came together in a bipartisan manner and turned that deficit into a surplus. And we did it without raising taxes.

  Susana Martinez

  Together, Mexico, Legislature

  "Paul Ryan Speaks at Republican National Convention". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2012.

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• We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen.

  Rick Perry

  Cutting, January, Taxes

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• You know, it was once said of the first George Bush that he was born on third base and thought he'd hit a triple. Well, with the 22 million new jobs and the budget surplus Bill Clinton left behind, George W. Bush came into office on third base, and then he stole second.

  Ted Strickland

  Jobs, Office, New Job

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• Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures, and we will come out of it. We will go back into surplus position when the economy recovers. So there is no need in Canada to raise taxes.

  Stephen Harper

  Needs, Canada, Economy

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 29, 2009.

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• ...if we expended all our energies solely on taking care of our own needs we would stop growing. In that respect what we call "soul" can be viewed as the surplus energy that can be invested into change and transformation. As such, it is the cutting edge of evolution.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Change, Business, Cutting

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.113, Penguin

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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.

  Robert Trout

  Successful, Science, Technology

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• 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.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Evil, Population, Rooms

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• 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.

  Joseph Murphy

  Space, Needs, Riches

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• What becomes of the surplus of human life? It is either, 1st. destroyed by infanticide, as among the Chinese and Lacedemonians; or 2d. it is stifled or starved, as among other nations whose population is commensurate to its food; or 3d. it is consumed by wars and endemic diseases; or 4th. it overflows, by emigration, to places where a surplus of food is attainable.

  James Madison

  War, Chinese, Balance

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.454

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• A canteen I remember vividly, and maybe one other thing, I can't remember. And I knew then that he had bought them in an army surplus store that day and he wanted to maybe enhance himself in my eyes, and say, "Well, yes, I have been in the army." Or [he] simply just didn't want to disappoint me. It could have been one or the other. But I knew that he had lied to me. And this filled me with a tremendous sort of anger towards him. At the same time, knowing he was trying to please me, so feeling good about him.

  Paul Auster

  Eye, Army, Please Me

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• Much of the pressure contemporary parents feel with respect to dressing children in designer clothes, teaching young children academics, and giving them instruction in sports derives directly from our need to use our children to impress others with our economic surplus. We find "good" rather than real reasons for letting our children go along with the crowd.

  David Elkind

  Sports, Children, Real

  David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.

  Susanna Moodie

  Country, Native American, Men

  Susanna Moodie (1852). “Roughing it in the Bush: Or, Life in Canada”, p.11, London : R. Bentley

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• One of course is to insure greater supply of energy for California's needs now and in the future in the sense that we are in discussions with representatives of Oregon and Washington, where they do have a surplus supply of energy available, and at what we hope will be a very reasonable price.

  George Deukmejian

  Oregon, California, Energy

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• Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would makemoney by it in this life, in the thirteenth they trusted their money to the Queen of Heaven because of their belief in her power to repay it with interest in the life to come.

  Henry Adams

  Faith, Queens, Heaven

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.92, Penguin

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