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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest. -- Robert Reich
When a mother goes to the store and purchases food for her child, she has the right to know what she is feeding her family. -- Bernie Sanders
Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons. -- Gabrielle Giffords
I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don't bring puka shells back. You've got to be careful of your vacation purchases. -- Josh Homme
I try to use my debit card rather than a credit card, but I will use a credit card for big purchases because I bank with Coutts and I get points. -- Sean Pertwee
Like Disneyland, luxury retailers have long had to figure out how to overcome customers' natural inertia. Unlike less pricey stores, they tend not to attract idle browsers who make impulse purchases. -- Virginia Postrel
There are lots of families who - who make irresponsible purchases. There are also a lot of families who have debt on credit cards because they use those credit cards to pay for medical bills. -- Elizabeth Warren
Every time a consumer walks into a retail store, experiences the Nokia experience for the first time and purchases that product. Those are the moments where you say, 'We've hit it. We've nailed it.' -- Stephen Elop
Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. -- Alcee Hastings
In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls. As a result, gold can be very volatile - upward and downward - at the peak of a crisis. -- Nouriel Roubini
From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves. -- James Monroe
The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. -- Basil Bunting
Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a great deal of risk. Moreover, even in a strong economy, unforeseen life events and risks in local real estate markets make highly leveraged borrowers vulnerable. -- Ben Bernanke
By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of the State of Ohio, and to a part of that in the Michigan Territory and of the State of Indiana. -- James Monroe
The minute a Wall Street firm purchases your debt, your bank no longer has it on its financial statement, which then allows the bank to look for more credit card customers. That's one reason why you get so many credit card offers. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card. -- Paloma Faith
Companies and their brands need to reach out and speak directly to consumers, to honor their values, and to form meaningful relationships with them. They must become architects of community, consistently demonstrating the values that their customer community expects in exchange for their loyalty and purchases. -- Simon Mainwaring
There is a preliminary belief that Tuolumne River water could be captured by other reservoirs that are downstream from Hetch Hetchy, the Cherry and Don Pedro reservoirs for instance. Furthermore, any shortfalls could be supplied via greater conservation efforts, newly discovered groundwater supplies, and water purchases when necessary. -- Matt Gonzalez
Women now influence the majority of consumer purchases. It is women's votes that will secure victory at the next election, hence the altogether delicious spectacle of Messrs Brown and Cameron vying to tell stories about broken nights and childcare as men once boasted of goals scored or pheasants bagged. -- Allison Pearson
As homeowners see the value of their homes decline, they become more likely to delay purchases of the big items - like automobiles, electronics and home appliances - that are ballasts of the American economy. When those purchases decline, large manufacturing firms, suddenly short on funds, could begin laying off employees. -- Charles Duhigg
Youthful social media users share their personal lives online, tweeting and posting everything from their relationship status to their current location to their latest purchases. Yet, when it comes to discussing deeper personal finance issues or seeking personal finance advice online, the majority of young adults typically shy away from the web. -- Alexa Von Tobel
Women are clearly the major consumers in far more than just female categories. It doesn't matter whether it is purchases of cars, cosmetics, or even products for men, female consumption power is the leading consumption power in the world. Any company that overlooks the woman as the decision maker is making a huge mistake. -- Andrea Jung
I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases. -- Gary Calamar
Credit or debit cards, for starters, are nothing short of shoppers' Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money, we still attach a special value to dirty paper with pictures of presidents on it. Handing some of that to a cashier simply hurts more than handing over a little sliver of plastic. -- Jeffrey Kluger
If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form. -- Edith Head
Expenses should never exceed one percent of our purchases. -- Sam Walton
Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul -- Lawrence Durrell
Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001. -- Bill Delahunt
Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death. -- James Lee Burke
When we make purchases on credit, they give us only an illusion of prosperity. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases. -- Ronald Reagan
If we want to move towards a low-polluting, sustainable society, we need to get consumers to think about their purchases. -- David Suzuki
Some say that life's a b-ch, but I'ma keep flirting and f-cking that b-ch for her money and Louis V purchases. -- Wiz Khalifa
It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul. -- Lawrence Durrell
Avoid getting wrapped up in things - especially status purchases - as these often come at the expense of people and relationships. -- Wanda Urbanska
If a rich person invests in a business, either directly or through stock purchases, it means business can grow and hire more people. -- Terry Savage
You get more irrationality within the family and in consumer behavior than you get, say, in the behavior of firms in their purchases. -- Ronald Coase
Dollar depreciation leads to higher inflation and ultimately forces foreign creditors to question their rationale and indeed their sanity for continuing purchases of U.S. Treasuries. -- Bill Gross
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise. -- Martial
the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows. -- Agnes Sligh Turnbull
I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don't bring puka shells back. You've got to be careful of your vacation purchases. -- Josh Homme
I love the way art moves people emotionally. I love the fact that when someone purchases art it is the one thing that will last for generations. -- Jack White
Buying experience such as going out to dinner or taking a vacation increases our own wellbeing and the wellbeing of others. Experiences last while material purchases fade. -- Tom Rath
We have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist. -- Warren Buffett
She goes to Frederick's of Hollywood at the mall and purchases an explicit lingerie outfit so sheer that you could read an appliance warranty through it in an unlit closet. -- Dave Barry
Every year we are greeted by a host of new apps that will 'change the way we think' about ordering takeout, 'fundamentally transform' our shoe purchases, or 'revolutionize' the way we edit photos. -- Mitch Kapor
Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid. -- Warren Buffett
Now and then, living more with less means paying more money. It may mean buying better quality - leaving behind repetitive purchases of discount junk for one expensive, well-made, thoughtfully designed tool that will last. -- Doris Janzen Longacre

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