Simon Kuznets Quotes
The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined by the GDP.
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Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.
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I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.
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The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.
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After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
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We no longer live in an era in which foreign policymakers can claim to serve their nations' interests treating what happens to people in other countries as an afterthought... What happens to people in other countries matters. It matters to the welfare of our own nations and our own citizens.
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This nation loves singing and loves acting.
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Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.
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I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.
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We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.
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To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.
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I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.
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Usury once in control will wreck the nation.
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When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.
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Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex has not been unlimited enough. If welfare does not eliminate squalor, we need more welfare; if sex does not bring happiness, we need more sex.
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Let us trust that all Mexicans, taught by the prolonged and painful experience of the calamities of war, will cooperate in the future for the wellbeing and the prosperity of the nation, which can only be obtained through an undoubted respect for the law and an obedience to the authorities elected by the people.
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You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.
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There will be a debate on Firing Line between Buckley and Gore Vidal on the proposition: "This nation cannot survive as long as the income of 50 percent of the population is below the median." Mr. Vidal will take the affirmative.
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Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation.
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Our poor country is fighting at an extraordinary hard conjuncture of an unparalleled war and internal problems such as we have never seen before, and only a strong Governmental power able to rely on the confidence of the nation can save it.
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I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.
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The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined by the GDP.
