#men

No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#government #prosperity #taxes #taxing #economy

A part-time worker is fully employed, half the time. In other words, they are part-time unemployees. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#economy #employee #employer #employment #job

Know something? I'd lay even odds that between the people following us and the people hunting us, we've become this city's principle means of employment. Tal Verrar's entire economy is now based on fucking with us. ↗

— Scott Lynch

#employment #following #hunting #tal-verrar #economy

Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies. ↗

— Joseph E. Stiglitz

#economy

Whomsoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate. ↗

— James Garfield

#control #depression #economy #finances #government

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#innocence

Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#virtue #wish-fulfillment #writing #virtue

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with. ↗

— L. Frank Baum

#desire #home #satisfaction #satisfaction

You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#satisfaction #satisfaction

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#satisfaction #satisfaction