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Expenditure can't really guarantee a great experience. I don't even like shopping; I've never bought stuff for myself, and everything I wear are gifts from my brothers, friends and people. -- Imtiaz Ali
Expenditure -- Sun Tzu
Expenditure rises to meet income. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did. -- Mason Cooley
An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy. -- Ravi Zacharias
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure. -- Richard Cobden
A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son. -- William Graham Sumner
I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source. -- Andrew Johnson
We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent. -- Marco Rubio
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it. -- Chester A. Arthur
You cannot go beyond a certain limit in your expenditure if you want to bring back money from your local market, which is very small after Pakistan. -- Satyajit Ray
Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others. -- George Eliot
In the European context tax rates are high and government expenditure is focused on current expenditure. A 'good' consolidation is one where taxes are lower and the lower government expenditure is on infrastructures and other investments. -- Mario Draghi
Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children. -- Thomas Jordan Jarvis
Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces. -- Anders Fogh Rasmussen
As we get rich, the basics of life - food, clothing and shelter - become a very small part of total expenditure. And people have enough money to purchase things that enhance them spiritually, and I mean the word 'spiritual' not necessarily in a religious sense but in the sense that it adds to your feeling of well-being. -- Robert Fogel
For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system whose ambitions are endless. They want to manage every second of our lives, every expenditure that we make. And the schools are the training ground to create a population that's easy to manage. -- John Taylor Gatto
Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure. -- Anthony Eden
Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead. -- James Dyson
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. -- Miguel de Cervantes
I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society. -- Mariano Rajoy
Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted. -- Vitruvius
To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons. -- Confucius
The Koch brothers, through the expenditure of billions of dollars and the creation and support of dozens of extreme right organizations, have taken fringe extremist ideas and made them mainstream within the Republican Party. -- Bernie Sanders
Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians. -- Saint Basil
Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that you could spend a week in London doing nothing but visit superb museums and galleries, free. -- Simon Hoggart
Consistently rated the most peaceable of all countries in the world by the Global Peace Index, Iceland has reduced its military expenditure to zero, has no armed forces, and has reduced the inequality gap between rich and poor. -- Scilla Elworthy
It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutting, corn for the planting and harvesting, and game and fish for the least expenditure of labor, no man would long serve for another, and any system of reliable service indoors or afield must fail. -- Alice Morse Earle
One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not. -- Mark Skousen
Expenditures rise to meet income. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
The nobelest expenditure is that which is made in the Divine Service -- Aristotle
A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure. --
We didn't actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure. -- Keith Davis
No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
With this latest largesse, public expenditures have tripled since 2004, while the private sector's contribution to non-oil GDP has stagnated. -- Karen Elliott House
You are not inefficient! You have the capacity to produce desired results with a minimum expenditure of energy, time or resources. -- Anyaele Sam Chiyson
The only expenditure, and all its outworkings, for which God can be held to be responsible is that which He directs. -- Amy Carmichael
Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs. -- Bradley A. Smith
...but we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure... -- Anthony Burgess
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
I have very, very low expenditures, but still I manage to spend it all. I guess Hot Pockets are more expensive than I thought. -- Robert Pattinson
The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily to the current malaise. -- Richard A. Epstein
Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures. -- Chaka Fattah
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum. -- Frederick Douglass
Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income or in terms of an enhanced quality of life. -- William Vickrey
The usual test under the Federal Election Campaign Act for whether something counts as a campaign expenditure is whether the obligation would have existed but for the campaign. If so, it is not a campaign expenditure. -- Bradley A. Smith
There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force. -- Ted Stevens
Among the reasons for this was the fact that the U.S.A. is one mass market. It is only when you have a mass market that large-scale manufacturing which involves very substantial expenditures can be justified. -- Paul Hoffman
Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the other generals. -- Michael Parenti
I cannot subscribe to the perverted reasoning that society may advance and strengthen the rule of law by the expenditure of morally innocent lives but that progress in the law may never be made at the price of morally guilty lives. -- Robert H. Jackson
By method and discipline are to be understood the marshaling of the army in its proper subdivisions, the graduations of rank among the officers, the maintenance of roads by which supplies may reach the army, and the control of military expenditure. -- Sun Tzu
When you treat people like children, you get children's work. Yet that's exactly how a lot of companies and managers treat their employees. Employees need to ask permission before they can do anything. They need to get approval for every tiny expenditure. -- Jason Fried
Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but as consumption. This blurring of labor and entertainment forms the basis, for example, of the financial alchemy that conjures deca-billion-dollar valuations for social-networking companies. -- Mohsin Hamid
The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case. -- Bob Barr
The art lies in setting the inner life into the most violent motion with the smallest possible expenditure of outer life; for it is the inner life which is the real object of our interest - The task of the novelist is not to narrate great events but to make small ones interesting. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
He [Tom Avery] is acutely, palpably afraid of Friday nights, what to do with them, those gaping, sneering, and stubbornly recurring widths of time - how to accommodate them, fill them, use them, annihilate them. He'd do anything to sidestep a Friday night. Friday nights demand conviviality and expenditure. It's the time to let loose (yeah, sure). -- Carol Shields
I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature. -- Edward Bellamy
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain. -- Anatole France
Our costliest expenditure is time. -- Theophrastus
Let not your expenditure exceed your income. -- Plautus
In public administration there is no connection between revenue and expenditure. -- Ludwig von Mises
Not planning for your time expenditure simply means deliberately intending to fail. -- Archibald Marwizi
This item is a mere fleabite in the ocean of our expenditure. -- Lord Randolph Churchill
Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought -- Ernst Mach
Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure. -- Aristotle
We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure. -- Frank Howard Clark
Social ascendency, innocently disguised as high fashion, good taste or prestigious expenditure, was the same the world over. -- John Keay
Child-care costs are now the largest family expenditure in much of America, even exceeding the cost of housing. -- Donald Trump
Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all. -- Salvador Dali
Given a limited budget, the most effective expenditure of funds to improve a street would probably be on trees. -- Allan Jacobs
It is unfortunate that for some, kindness is an unwarranted expenditure, compassion an avoidable weakness, and love an unnecessary gamble. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
If people of India can reach Mars with minimal expenditure, why can they not keep their streets and colonies clean. -- Narendra Modi
I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author. -- Evelyn Waugh
Clean water is not an expenditure of Federal funds; clean water is an investment in the future of our country. -- Bud Shuster
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas. -- Christopher Morley
If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool. -- Amit Kalantri
...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits. -- Smedley Butler
A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life. -- Carl Jung
If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash. -- Marlon Brando
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
Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure. -- Hannah More
Well-fed people can enhance their dignity, their health and their learning capacity. Putting resources into social programs is not expenditure. It is investment. -- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use. -- Chogyam Trungpa
Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought. -- Ernst Mach
In just one year, the expenditure of of the U.S.'s military budget is equivalent to the entire 50-year running budget of NASA combined. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Energy is like money; once spent, it's gone. However, it is possible to make an investment, as opposed to an expenditure, that yields a return. -- Brendan Brazier
Both [Donald] Trump and Hillary [Clinton] want bigger military budgets and Hillary supports President Obama's one trillion dollar expenditure to so-called upgrade nuclear weapons. P -- Ralph Nader
If it is unnecessary to adjust the amount of expenditure to the means available, there is no limit to the spending of the great god State. -- Ludwig von Mises
Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation. -- Charles Caleb Colton
A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual. -- Thorstein Veblen
I want to conserve energy expenditure by reducing our air intake. Save lives by saving your I love yous and holding your breath for the duration of your relationship. -- Jarod Kintz
Shopping malls are liquid TVs for the end of the twentieth century. A whole micro-circuitry of desire, ideology and expenditure for processed bodies drifting through the cyber-space of ultracapitalism. -- Arthur Kroker
The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy. -- Rebecca West
It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth. -- Thorstein Veblen
Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears. -- Ambrose Bierce
If you would govern a state of a thousand chariots, you must pay strict attention to business, be true to your word, be economical in expenditure and love the people. -- Confucius
In response to the drop in wealth suffered as a consequence of the 2008 financial crisis, homeowners and firms did attempt to increase savings in financial assets by reducing expenditure on durables. -- Dale T. Mortensen
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There's a little known virtue called magnificence: an unostentatious liberality of expenditure in doing good. You would deny me the practice of it. Mierda! I should have left you on the comet. -- Julian May
Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfulls. -- Hilaire Belloc
Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it; it pays for both mental and physical expenditure. -- Sylvia Ashton-Warner
It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm. -- William Winwood Reade
When you start cutting government expenditure, at some point you are cutting essential services rather than excessive services. So you have to take into account the social costs involved in cutting government spending. -- Raghuram Rajan
The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable of more work with the same expenditure of fuel. -- James Prescott Joule
Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure. -- Rumi
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither. -- Calvin Coolidge
A balanced diet is not so much about protein/fat/carbohydrate ratios. The real ratios to consider, at least for the typical American or European, are energy consumption/expenditure, pleasure/actual need, food/everything else. -- Darrell Calkins

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