“ I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty. ”
- Barbara Mikulski- Copy
- 394
“ Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think. ”
- Adolf Eichmann- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Increasing minimum wages, as Kerry wants to do, makes it more difficult for an unskilled, uneducated worker to find a job. ”
- Larry Elder- Copy
- 1.3K
“ For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear. ”
- Leonhard Euler- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line. ”
- Andy Grove- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. ”
- Abraham Joshua Heschel- Copy
- 133
“ The door to the cabinet is to be opened using a minimum of 15 Kleenexes. ”
- Howard Hughes- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words. ”
- Arthur Hailey- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason. ”
- Archibald Cox- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum. ”
- Joe Orton- Copy
- 3K
“ Weren't any druggies in the band. Anybody who's been on the road any length of time had taken No-Doz or a diet pill to stay awake, but I think that even that was very much at a minimum. ”
- Buck Owens- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means. ”
- La Monte Young- Copy
- 2.9K
“ In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption. ”
- Anthony Zinni- Copy
- 4K
“ When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. ”
- Leo Burnett- Copy
- 985
“ Business is a good game - lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money. ”
- Nolan Bushnell- Copy
- 3.7K
“ I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum. ”
- Anita Baker- Copy
- 760
“ We are under-exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. ”
- Lenny Bruce- Copy
- 555
“ The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated. ”
- Albert Low- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum. ”
- Thomas Szasz- Copy
- 2.1K
“ The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort… ”
- Claude M. Bristol- Copy
- 1.6K
“ You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year. ”
- Bill Clinton- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents. ”
- Frederick Scott Oliver- Copy
- 3.3K
“ In your training, do not be in a hurry, for it takes a minimum of ten years to master the basics and advance to the first rung. Never think of yourself as an all-knowing, perfected master; you must continue to train daily with your friends and students and progress together in the Art of Peace. ”
- Morihei Ueshiba- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income. ”
- Mark Dayton- Copy
- 808
“ Randy's OK, Paula's a pain in the ass. She's just one of those irritating people. I agree with some of what she says, I disagree with a hell of a lot of what she says. I keep my time with her to a minimum. ”
- Simon Cowell- Copy
- 3K
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