Dalton McGuinty Quotes
When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant Windows platform, in particular, was a home for all manner of bugs and problems that required IT people to straighten out.
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I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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I don't like standing and talking in front of lots of people.
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Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.
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Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter.
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People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.
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Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.
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If there is anything that the ACLU hates more than censorship, it is any form of public religious expression.
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Well we've left behind the 200X's, and we move onto the 20XX's. Maybe that will finally make us feel like we're living in the future, rather than a media controlled slave state where an iPhone is worth substantially more than a human life. Happy new year.
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I've done two albums for Concord Records; one was with Al Jarreau and it did very well for us. The second album was called 'Songs And Stories,' and it had good songs and good performances, but I promised them I would do an album that was more jazz-oriented.
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In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
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In those days, in Far Rockaway, there was a youth center for Jewish kids at the temple.... Somebody nominated me for president of the youth center. The elders began getting nervous, because I was an avowed atheist by that time.... I thought nature itself was so interesting that I didn't want it distorted like that. And so I gradually came to disbelieve the whole religion.
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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
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When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
