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Like a tech garden, mindfulness transforms the tools we own into friendships with purpose, cultivating not distraction but connection.
Author:
Jasper Ortega
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I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.
Author:
Philip Zimbardo
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I want to increase our spending on research and development by 25%. That's something the U.S. does very well. That dynamism alongside a welfare state in the European community - that's the synthesis I want to achieve.
Author:
Jose Zapatero
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We bought an apartment building and were going to live off the rent money. We rented to people who were on welfare and a lot of times they couldn't pay the rent. We wouldn't throw them out so we lost the building.
Author:
Dick York
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Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.
Author:
William Wilson
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For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.
Author:
Charles Wilson
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Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.
Author:
Meg Whitman
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A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.
Author:
Jim Wallis
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This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
Author:
William Vickrey
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The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.
Author:
Jeanne Tripplehorn
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The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.
Author:
Todd Tiahrt
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The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.
Author:
James Talent
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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
Author:
William Taft
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Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.
Author:
William Sumner
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Most women are one man away from welfare.
Author:
Gloria Steinem
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If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.
Author:
Gloria Steinem
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
Author:
Thomas Sowell
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Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.
Author:
William Smith
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This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.
Author:
Tavis Smiley
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I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.
Author:
Amartya Sen
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And for man to look upon himself as a capital good, even if it did not impair his freedom, may seem to debase him... by investing in themselves, people can enlarge the range of choice available to them. It is one way free men can enhance their welfare.
Author:
Theodore Schultz
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The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.
Author:
Robert Scheer
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What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.
Author:
Robert Scheer
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Its success lies in the fact that it's an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan.
Author:
James Roosevelt
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People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.
Author:
Mitt Romney
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We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
Author:
Ronald Reagan
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Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Author:
Ronald Reagan
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I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way.
Author:
Kelly Preston
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The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
Author:
Robert Peel
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Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.
Author:
Grover Norquist
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The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.
Author:
Daniel Moynihan
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The welfare system in the United States is vile.
Author:
Daniel Moran
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Too many people feel that where you start out dictates where you should end up. I was on welfare and just shy of 19 when my first daughter was born, but I was encouraged to take advantage of my ability and drive and remained in school.
Author:
Gwen Moore
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The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
Author:
Charles Montesquieu
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The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change.
Author:
John Monks
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All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare.
Author:
Jonathan Mayhew
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Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.
Author:
Jonathan Mayhew
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It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
Author:
Harriet Martineau
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The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
Author:
Thomas Macaulay
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Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.
Author:
Henry Lodge
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An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.
Author:
Friedrich List
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But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.
Author:
Friedrich List
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Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.
Author:
Friedrich List
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May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.
Author:
Joseph Lancaster
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South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake.
Author:
Nguyen Ky
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The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good.
Author:
Henry Knox
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Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
Author:
Jack Kingston
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If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.
Author:
William King
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Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.
Author:
William King
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I have deep feelings for the welfare and comfort of others.
Author:
DeForest Kelley
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Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Author:
Helen Keller
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When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare.
Author:
John Kasich
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Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.
Author:
Herman Kahn
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Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.
Author:
Andrew Johnson
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The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county.
Author:
Thomas Jarvis
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But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
Author:
Zora Hurston
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And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
Author:
Patricia Hewitt
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The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.
Author:
Arthur Henderson
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The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.
Author:
Arthur Henderson
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I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes.
Author:
John Hawley
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We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program.
Author:
Dennis Hastert
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We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.
Author:
Townsend Harris
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The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.
Author:
John Harlan
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Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.
Author:
Cathy Guisewite
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We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.
Author:
Newt Gingrich
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The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.
Author:
George Gilder
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
Author:
Barney Frank
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How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.
Author:
Jim Fowler
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Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.
Author:
Jim Fowler
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Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.
Author:
Mike Fitzpatrick
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There's more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler's fascism but won't examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season.
Author:
Suzanne Fields
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I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.
Author:
Charles Evers
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I don't believe in welfare.
Author:
Charles Evers
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Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.
Author:
Charles Evers
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Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.
Author:
Charles Evers
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I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.
Author:
Eminem
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Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.
Author:
Larry Elder
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It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.
Author:
Charles Edison
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Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds.
Author:
Marjory Douglas
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Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.
Author:
Jacques Delors
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This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.
Author:
Jacques Delors
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The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical.
Author:
George Crook
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Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.
Author:
John Comenius
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A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
Author:
Bainbridge Colby
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Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used.
Author:
Tom Coburn
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It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.
Author:
Nick Clooney
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There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
Author:
Barbara Castle
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To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license.
Author:
Robert Casey
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For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.
Author:
Mel Carnahan
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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
Author:
Albert Camus
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On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.
Author:
David Cameron
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But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now.
Author:
David Cameron
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We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.
Author:
David Cameron
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What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits.
Author:
David Cameron
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Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.
Author:
Carol Burnett
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.
Author:
James Buckley
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We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that.
Author:
Louie Anderson
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
Author:
Lascelles Abercrombie
