"Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income."
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"We happily give up our freedom and our income in exchange for having someone else take responsibility for telling us what to do next."
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"It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse."
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"The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around."
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"...100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Debt...all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from government."
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"The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years."
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"By the time we got to Courageous, we were bringing in more outsiders, so any time we would bring in outsiders, we would offer to pay them, and [as for volunteers from] the church, because they were getting the benefit of the income to all the ministries of the church and the mission, the building program and all those things, they knew up-front that they were volunteering and gladly did so."
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"Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other."
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"The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income."
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"The secret of happiness is to live within your income and pay your bills on time."
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"When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income."
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"Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had."
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"The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit."
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"You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it."
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"There are certain things--as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three-- That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most Is a thing they call the Sea."
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"It is a general maxim that all governments find a use for as much money as they can raise. Indeed, they have commonly demands for more...I take this as a settled truth, that they will all spend as much as their revenue; that is, will live up to their income."
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"A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross."
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"A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income"
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"My roots were pretty far removed from high income. It's interesting to be back there at the level of income I have now, at this stage in my life."
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"If your income on films or whatever you're producing using film drops below a certain level, then you don't have enough money to stay in business. People like to say that this is all just about making money, but if you don't make money, you don't make anything."
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