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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. – Charles Dickens
First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever. – Benjamin Netanyahu
The challenge is that CEOs now think like global investors, while the political leadership thinks like local civil servants. Getting the right policies to attract and develop talented labor, capital and diversify the income sources will determine the prosperity and wealth of the people of each nation. – Med Jones
The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized .... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever. – Menachem Begin
What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life. – Albert Camus
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. – Howard Scott, Economist
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. – Samuel McChord Crothers
As one might nurse a tiny flame, The able and far-seeing man, E?en with the smallest capital, Can raise himself to wealth. – Buddhist
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people. – Charles Lamb
Criminal A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. – Howard Scott
Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. – Howard Scott
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital. – Daniel Webster
Hair salon doorways in the capital city's pink light district. Working as a xiaojie is an alternative, albeit illicit, means of income for these underprivileged girls, who are known in Jiangxi as "porcelain with cracks" and in Ningxia as "wilted flowers". – Tom Carter
High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make. – Robert Francis Kennedy
I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author. – Evelyn Waugh
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment. – Conan Doyle
It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good. – Pope Pius XI
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. – Sigmund Freud
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. – Edmund Burke
Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It doesn't appear to belong to anyone. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody. – Calvin Coolidge
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes. – Murray Edelman, _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1
Such prosperity as we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital. – Aldous Huxley
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. – Paul Valery
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. – Henry Ford

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