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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie
Finance
Good
Trust
Wealth
Community
Administer
Sacred
Lifetime
Bound
Surplus
His
Which
There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.
Nick Cave
Life
You
Will
Pain
One Thing
Around
Always
Surplus
Thing
Guarantee
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
Thomas Carlyle
Rest
Gifted
Sees
Point
Leaves
Surplus
Person
Essential
Who
I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.
Barack Obama
History
Simple
Pay
President
Our
Boot
Jobs
Rate
Higher
Had
Higher Taxes
Over
New
Fair
Economy
Households
New Jobs
Surplus
Clinton
Lot
Reform
Same
Tax
Want
Tax Code
Biggest
Taxes
Ask
Created
Bill
Bill Clinton
Code
Incomes
Nearly
Million
Millionaires
When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.
Ann Coulter
War
Peace
Recession
Democrats
Surplus
Were
Want
Wanted
Taxes
Mild
Now
Raise
The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country.
Arthur Laffer
Country
Think
Our
Deficit
Bad
Having
Bad Thing
Trade
Trade Deficit
Surplus
Being
Capital
Ever
Thing
The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before.
Bobby Scott
First
Year
Before
Worse
Security
Administration
Surplus
Up
Than
Ended
Just
Social
Bush
Bush Administration
Used
Social Security
Each
Each Year
Medicare
Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.
Daniel Yergin
History
Characterize
Entire
Surplus
Oil
Shortage
Cycles
The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.
Edward Carpenter
Value
General
Fact
He
Taken
Advantage
Namely
Obvious
Does
Surplus
His
Get
Labours
Capitalist
Full
Workmen
Talented people have a responsibility to get the training they need to be successful risk takers and go out there to take risks. What I see is surplus of talented people and a shortage of people willing to take the risks.
Edward Conard
Risks
People
Training
Responsibility
Out
Willing
See
Risk
Take
Takers
Talented
Talented People
Go
Surplus
Get
Shortage
Successful
Need
One of the key drivers of Ireland's future is our balance of trade surplus.
Enda Kenny
Future
Balance
Key
Our
Drivers
Trade
Surplus
Ireland
For years, Ireland used to have a philosophy of 'Get them in here to invest and develop in Ireland, and this will sort out our problems.' It is good in the sense of building a trade surplus, but we also want to develop what it is that we offer ourselves and that Irish companies export abroad.
Enda Kenny
Good
Problems
Will
Building
Sense
Our
Philosophy
Ourselves
Out
Abroad
Invest
Develop
Also
Sort
Trade
Surplus
Years
Ireland
Irish
Offer
Get
Want
Them
Used
Export
Companies
Here
Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.
Gray Davis
Plants
Power
Down
More
More Power
Power Plants
Counting
Well
Because
Surplus
Line
End
Very
Getting
Process
Flawed
Why
Who needs Russian gas if we could get all the heat we need from our own surplus? Who needs Middle Eastern oil, when we can integrate limitless renewable sources in our smart grids?
Jens Martin Skibsted
Needs
Smart
Own
Our
Eastern
Russian
Could
Renewable
Limitless
Surplus
Integrate
Sources
Get
Heat
Middle
Oil
Middle Eastern
Who
Gas
Need
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.
John C. Calhoun
Government
Together
People
Power
Consisting
Risen
Various
Vast
Powerful
Mass
Combined
Greater
Surplus
Up
Than
Banks
Themselves
Held
Interests
Many
Cohesive
Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive.
John Griffin Carlisle
Enormous
Our
Revenues
Surplus
Oppressive
Illogical
I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it was the first time we had done it since man walked on the moon. We had a $5 trillion surplus and we cut taxes.
John Kasich
Time
Man
Moon
First
Trillion
Architects
Had
Since
Budget
House
Balanced
First Time
Surplus
Chief
Walked
Committee
Done
Taxes
Cut
Chairman
Last
Last Time
You can't rent a car in Bermuda; about twenty miles long and two miles wide at its fattest, it deems itself too small for surplus traffic.
Jonathan Miles
You
Car
Long
Too
Fattest
About
Small
Rent
Surplus
Traffic
Itself
Miles
Twenty
Wide
Two
Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.
Joseph Brodsky
Time
Space
Made
Prison
Both
Surplus
Up
Essentially
Shortage
Inmate
Palpable
Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.
Josiah Strong
History
World
East
Crowded
Poured
Countries
Always
Surplus
Been
Westward
The History Of
Which
Land
Comparatively
You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position.
Kenneth Lay
You
Rather
Surplus
Versus
Shortage
Your
Position
China is not looking for a trade surplus but wants to import more French goods.
Li Keqiang
Looking
More
Goods
Import
French
Trade
Surplus
Wants
China
Who uses funds more productively - private citizens or the government? I dare say that Warren Buffett can use his surplus funds more effectively in private business and creating jobs than the government can.
Mark Skousen
Government
Business
Say
Dare
Jobs
Citizens
More
Surplus
Private
His
Effectively
Than
Creating
Use
Productively
Warren
Warren Buffett
Who
Uses
Funds
The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.
Melissa Bean
People
Responsibility
Past
Sense
Congress
Rules
More
Had
Budget
Return
Fiscal
Fiscal Responsibility
Surplus
However
Expect
American
Common
Establish
In The Past
Common Sense
American People
Us
Helped
My Scottish grandfather, John W. Blyth, was a man addicted to paintings. A manufacturer of linen, he spent all his surplus money on pictures.
Michael Portillo
Man
Money
Addicted
Spent
John
He
Pictures
Surplus
His
Scottish
Grandfather
Manufacturer
Paintings
I actually don't have a great surplus of ideas. Some evolve very slowly, over many years, but I sort of trust that all of the interesting ones will become something that I eventually end up doing.
Miranda July
Great
Trust
Will
Become
Evolve
Some
Slowly
Something
Over
Ideas
Sort
Doing
Surplus
Years
End
Up
Very
Interesting
Many
Eventually
Actually
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