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Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on. -- William Henry Maule
The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues. -- William Vickrey
To be sure, faster growth in nominal labor compensation does not necessarily portend higher inflation. -- Ben Bernanke
I was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic home, but without any really strong faith there. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief. -- William Vickrey
No one will lend at a negative interest rate; potential creditors will simply choose to hold cash, which pays zero nominal interest. -- Ben Bernanke
Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
My mother was an unbeliever - and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to church at the last minute before the gospel reading, take Communion, and walk right out again. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
In New Classical theory, periods of declining employment - business cycle downturns - may be caused by an unexpected decline in aggregate demand, which leaves workers mistakenly holding out for nominal wages that exceed the new market-clearing level. -- George Akerlof
I feel like being a door person was like college in a sense. I could watch comedy on a professional level seven nights a week without paying, and they would pay me a nominal amount of money to be there. -- Mike Birbiglia
Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers. -- Janet Yellen
I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com. -- Piers Anthony
The most remarkable thing about Calvin Coolidge is that he served for 67 months, and when he left office, the budget was lower than he came in. In real terms - in nominal terms with vanilla on top - he cut the budget year over year. -- Amity Shlaes
I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to what extent we're involved in propping up those governments. -- Lawrence Wright
I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion. -- Thomas Friedman
It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth just what can be delivered in redemption of it, and no more. We all understand that the notes of the Astors, and Stewarts, and Vanderbilts, though issued by millions, and tens of millions, are really worth their nominal values. -- Lysander Spooner
The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian. -- Amy Carmichael
A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth -- Thomas Hood
Arizona seeks only to enforce the nominal immigration policy of the United States. Perhaps the federal government should try it sometime. -- Rich Lowry
You normally don't get a margin call unless your securities, minus the debt, are worth 30% or less of their nominal market value. -- Jane Bryant Quinn
Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth. -- Bill Nye
What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and involved membership. -- Robert D. Putnam
How easy it is to read the Scriptures and give a kind of nominal assent to the truth and yet never to appropriate what it tells us! -- D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us. -- Thomas Jefferson
This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as unthinkingly wedded to dogma as any junior member of the Spanish Inquisition. -- Camille Paglia

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