#maintaining

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#discontent #economic #economic growth #economists #fact

After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I'm just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#atkins #dieting #doing #few #focused

Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#away #consistency #difficulties #family #friends

If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#british #burden #colonists #exist #financial

Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#amid #country #deterrence #difficult #geographically

As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#being #control #country #crisis #however

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#filling #formerly #innovations #involved #maintaining

It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining. ↗

— James Hogg

#drive #folds #force #gather #hands

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#art #bad #bad thing #become #beginning

Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority. ↗

— Ed Pastor

#grants #head #head start #high #high priority