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Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind. -- Philo
Households and businesses cut expenses every day. Passing a financial down payment alongside the debt limit sends the right message to the public, and gives members of Congress greater comfort, or cover, depending on your perspective. -- John Sununu
It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes as collateral for loans and local governments are forced to cut jobs and programs as property-tax revenue disappears. -- Mark Zandi
Households, cities, countries and nations have enjoyed great happiness, when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such men not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind. -- Philo
What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households. -- Sarah Orne Jewett
During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school. -- Lionel Blue
Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12. -- Lucille Roybal-Allard
I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff. -- Gene Simmons
Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing. -- Patricia Heaton
Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed. -- Bill Bryson
They both go together; you can't be in front of the camera hosting a fitness television show in front of 75 million households and not have trained 6 days per week year round - in a bikini no less. -- Kiana Tom
Puerto Rico loses out on billions of dollars annually because it is treated unequally under a range of federal programs, including tax credits available to millions of households in the States that do not pay federal income taxes. -- Pedro Pierluisi
The Obama administration deserves credit for quickly ending the housing free fall. In particular, Obama empowered the Federal Housing Administration to ensure that households could find mortgages at low interest rates even during the worst phase of the financial panic. -- Mark Zandi
Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive. -- Gabrielle
In two-parent households, women have increasingly entered the workplace, and in single-parent households, there is even more of a need for the adults to work. That means parents do not fully control their own schedule and have to scramble to find high-quality after-school options. -- Geoffrey Canada
When you look at the actual data on technological innovation, one thing you see is that what I call the 'low-hanging fruit' has been exhausted. So radio, flush toilets, electricity, and automobiles - a lot of very basic inventions - have spread to almost all households. -- Tyler Cowen
In villages across the developing world, governments have provided reasonable enough latrines that have again and again been turned into storage spaces or simply abandoned. In India alone, millions of government-funded latrines have become goat-sheds. Some had been built near kitchens, a taboo in Indian households. -- Rose George
In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know. -- Sandra Oh
The fact is, women don't like to talk about money, let alone deal with it. Though we're killing it at work, earning more than ever, running our households, and making big-ticket decisions, too many women still worry they'll be judged by what they earn and how they spend it. -- Alexa Von Tobel
It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share. -- A. N. Wilson
The claim that SpongeBob makes your child dumber is a causal claim. If you do X, Y will happen. To prove that, you'd have to show that if you forced the children in the no-TV households to watch SpongeBob and changed nothing else about their lives, they would do worse in school. -- Emily Oster
When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance. -- Jeffrey Kluger
I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards. -- Yolanda Adams
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
A lot of people know about the power of the WWE brand. We're in 145 countries in 30 different languages. We reach about 650 million households worldwide on a global weekly basis. But what they don't know about WWE is that we use all of that power to give back to the community through events like Hurricane Sandy Relief. -- Stephanie McMahon
I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot. -- Barack Obama
God, keep me from what they call 'households,' -- Emily Dickinson
In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis. -- Patrick J. Kennedy
Many women are heads of households. Many are the primary wage earners for their families. -- Marsha Blackburn
The lower half of households by wealth held just 3% of wealth in 1989 and only 1% in 2013. -- Janet Yellen
Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data. -- Linda Chavez
The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households. -- John Ruskin
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We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form. -- Warren Buffett
Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform. -- John Cornyn
I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households. -- Sandra Lee
Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities. -- Alan Greenspan
The financial wealth of the top 1 percent of households in the U.S. exceeds the combined wealth of the bottom 95 percent. -- Ralph Nader
There are many things clogging the television waves. You've got to fight for every bit of television households you can get. -- Kevin Sorbo
There's no doubt that [tax cuts] act as a stimulus. How could they not, in a sense? You're giving cash back to households. -- Judy Woodruff
By the age of 3, children from wealthier households hear, on average, about 500,000 encouragements and 80,000 discouragements. The ratio is reversed in households on welfare. -- Jonah Lehrer
Squeezed for money, the affected households often need to lower the quality of their food, which then impacts the overall development of their children. -- Sheikh Hasina
The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board. -- Edward Alsworth Ross
Real estate is still a great investment opportunity for households. Price appreciation will continue. It may not be at 20%. It may ... even go down to 5%. -- David Lereah
About 30% of fresh food is thrown away in supermarkets every day, although they will deny it. British households are throwing an estimated 30% of their food away, too. -- Arthur Potts Dawson
Maybe Governor Romney in the spirit of openness should tell us how much money he's made off of how many households that have been foreclosed by his investments. -- Newt Gingrich
My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad. -- Matt Damon
Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history. -- Fiona Shaw
In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households' estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income. -- Edmund Phelps
[Hillary] Clinton was able to assemble a winning Democratic coalition out here, beating Sanders among African-Americans, women, among women, and voters from union households, so, unions, women, African-Americans. -- Chris Matthews
The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000. -- Marty Meehan
After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 to 2013. Â?By comparison, the average real income of the other 95% of households grew less than 10%. -- Janet Yellen
For the hundreds of thousands of Californians in gay and lesbian households who are managing their day-to-day lives, this decision affirms the full legal protections and safeguards I believe everyone deserves. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
The good thing is, we have household formation in this country. We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form. -- Howard Warren Buffett
The overall effect of the GEA will be to increase unit production costs, diminish competitiveness, cut the rate of return to capital in key sectors, reduce employment, and make households worse off, -- Ross McKitrick
[A] major source of wealth for many families is financial assets, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and private pensions. ...the wealthiest 5 percent of households held nearly two-thirds of all such assets in 2013 -- Janet Yellen
Economic growth creates jobs, and countries grow when they educate their people and pursue policies that encourage households to save, existing businesses to invest, and entrepreneurs to innovate and create new markets. -- Peter Blair Henry
Apart from their work and production, households perform other important economic functions. Most CONSUMPTION occurs within the household. ... In developed capitalist economies, private consumption spending accounts for half or more of GDP. -- Jim Stanford
We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what's occurred is if you have a job in this country, you're in stocks. -- Jim Cramer
While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world. -- Carol Bellamy
There were thousands of households throughout that city and there was something happening in all of them. There was some kind of story in each, but self-contained. No one else knew. No one else cared. -- Markus Zusak

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