Flip Wilson
Comedian, Actor
"The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down."
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Cost Of Living
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Carolina Maria de Jesus
Writer
"we are slaves to the cost of living."
Theodore Roosevelt
Politician, Author
"No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so after his day's work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity."
Edward Abbey
Author, Environmentalist
"The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe."
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"We believe that our truly urgent need is to make our nation secure, our economy strong and our dollar sound. For every American this matter of the sound dollar is crucial. Without a sound dollar, every American family would face a renewal of inflation, an ever-increasing cost of living, the withering away of savings and life insurance policies."
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"I find that the standard of living does not go up in proportion with the cost of living. The trick in life is to do things that are fun all the time."
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"No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil. It is your fellow workers who are ordered to work for the Government, every time an appropriation bill is passed. The people pay the expense of government, often many times over, in the increased cost of living. I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more."
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"I don't want to overstate the gender difference. But women are more sensitized to the way that larger issues affect their pocketbooks, like pay equality or cost of living changes."
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