Benjamin E. Sasse Quotes
The real number of the US' obligations, unfunded obligations that we're passing on to our future generates is more like $70 trillion to $75 trillion. The vast majority of that is health entitlements - Medicare, Obamacare, Medicaid. There's also Social Security, interest on the debt. But fundamentally, health entitlements are the thing that will bankrupt our kids. We need to fix that for the long-term.
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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I believe that the Chinese people as a whole love to make investments in real estate.
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When I was growing up, I was told you could be anything you want to be, but I didn't really believe that because you couldn't be president. Like, I knew that; we never had a black president.
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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
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I got sober, and I got happy again.
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I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.
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I want to play women my own age, rather than artificially 'de-age' myself so that I can play women who are younger or much younger than I am. I want to grow into those kind of more mature parts, not try and keep them at bay for as long as I possibly can.
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Those who store, package, and sell the food we serve our families have a responsibility to maintain basic standards of cleanliness in their facilities.
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The physicality of boxing is like nothing else.
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We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.
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People who are scientists today are scientists in spite of the system, typically, not because of it.
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We seem to be our own worst enemies. We should require critical U.S. infrastructure to remain in U.S. hands.
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For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.
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The resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.
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The real number of the US' obligations, unfunded obligations that we're passing on to our future generates is more like $70 trillion to $75 trillion. The vast majority of that is health entitlements - Medicare, Obamacare, Medicaid. There's also Social Security, interest on the debt. But fundamentally, health entitlements are the thing that will bankrupt our kids. We need to fix that for the long-term.
