Expenses Quotes
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And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.
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Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers.
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Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it
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The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships. . . it seems safe to say that such ideas are wholly visionary and even if the machine could get across with one or two passengers the expense would be prohibitive to any but the capitalist who could use his own yacht.
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Avoid getting wrapped up in things - especially status purchases - as these often come at the expense of people and relationships.
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Nothing is sure in London, except expense.
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A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts expenses from one to another.But when it encroaches on productive consumption it diminishes public riches.
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Lord, bring honor to thy Son at my expense, whatever the cost, and send me the bill. It is my reasonable service - He paid mine.
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I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.
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We're making money? We're also incurring amazing expenses - huge - as we hire more people, want more equipment.
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I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.
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The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth.
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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
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Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing everyone a disservice by perpetuating the idea that beautiful is better than plain, because having done everything just about that you can do, sparing no expense, and not effort, to become better looking, I know that only so much can be done.
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At the end of the day, the question to ask yourself is this: do your expenses, big and small, bring you the thrill they once did?
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Unfortunately, the show's success comes at the expense of its biggest asset -- the comedians themselves.
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Americans deserve both clean air and clean water and never one at the expense of the other.
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The US wants to subdue Russia, to solve US problems at Russia's expense. No one in history ever managed to do this to Russia, and no one ever will.
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People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
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Even though work stops, expenses run on.
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Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.
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I felt I had to work even harder in order to help two sets of parents. Most of my money I send home to let my parents manage. The rest I use for living expenses in America.
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The most politically painless way to hand out goodies, without taking responsibility for their costs, is to pass a law saying that somebody else must provide those goodies at their expense, while the politicians take credit for generosity and compassion.
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That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.
