#aid

One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment. ↗

— Chris Christie

#care #career #course #entire #entire career

I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue. ↗

— Alonzo Church

#actually #been #continue #department #gave

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid. ↗

— Kate Clinton

#always #campbell #english #english teacher #friend

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. ↗

— Ty Cobb

#batter #every #great #him #more

I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#declare #diminishing #england #establishments #falls

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#coin #fashioned #governments #may #nations

The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#19th century #affinity #books #century #does

My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#billy #brother #child #competition #cutting

... money should not be spent according to what the West considers the most dramatic kind of suffering. ↗

— William Easterly

#development #money

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#enlightened #maiden #monarch #obsolete #repertory