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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A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
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I hope that I have had some effect on the fact that Israel is a start-up nation.
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This nation loves singing and loves acting.
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Our nation of immigrants is, tautologically, a nation of emigrants.
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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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There is a missionary spirit—a spirit which urges us to live outside ourselves and to be concerned for the welfare of others.
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I'm a real big celebrity. I'm this megastar.
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Everyone thinks the fashion business is so glamorous. It's completely the opposite.
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I'm able to fight for myself, I'm able to speak up and feel like I have a voice, and I can be my own advocate and my own warrior.
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While European national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these cultures against their colonial consequences. Islamic, Indian, or African civilizations were invented contrapuntally by Orientalism... in order to match, balance and thus authenticate Western Civilization.
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The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined by the GDP.
