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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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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I believe that the Chinese people as a whole love to make investments in real estate.
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We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
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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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Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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In Bollywood, the film's stakes are as high as the actor. In Hollywood, they are way above, and the day we realise this in our industry, we will start appreciating actors.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a journalist. I was in love with Lisa Ling, who's a broadcast journalist and who travels the world. I used to read all of her articles and watch her when she'd go to China or South Africa or Australia. I thought that was the coolest job because she got to travel and tell people's stories.
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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.
