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Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes. -- Marcel Duchamp
Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. -- Antoine Rivarol
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. -- Jean Cocteau
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. -- Ronald Reagan
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. -- Woody Allen
If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is a role for government, but no matter how much money the government spends, it will never be able to take the place of parents and strong families. -- Marco Rubio
That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that. -- Brian Clough
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. -- Harry S. Truman
When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart. -- Helen Rowland
As ye sow, so shall ye reap. When a ballet company spends a lot of money on gimmicky pieces, it's stuck with them for a while - they have to earn their keep. -- Robert Gottlieb
Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman. -- Marilyn Monroe
Honestly, the average American spends about 52 minutes a day in commute traffic. And as much as I love driving my car and many people like driving their car, commuting has never been fun for me. -- Sebastian Thrun
Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble. -- Steve Forbes
I don't want to make a cheap analysis, but when you have, like I did, a father incapable of showing emotion, who spends his life telling you that no one will love you if you aren't perfect, it leaves scars. -- Jane Fonda
I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it. -- Marlo Thomas
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans. -- Ron Paul
Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV. -- Warren Farrell
Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data. -- Jan Koum
I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and signals of the sort that cult studies people study; and it's partly, I suppose, because some of those signs and signals aren't worth bothering about. You have to be selective about these things. -- Peter York
Black Swan' does what Hollywood movies have always done - it spends its energies on getting some surface things right while getting everything important wrong. Darren Aronofsky, the director, applies the same techniques and the same sensibility here as he did with 'The Wrestler,' only with a prettier protagonist. -- Robert Gottlieb
Defense leaders should be searching for ways to reform out-of-date procurement processes, to collapse layers of Pentagon bureaucracy, and to restrain the growth in personnel and benefits costs. A critical first step in that process should be to conduct a full Pentagon audit to determine how DOD spends taxpayer dollars. -- Pete Hegseth
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. -- Henry David Thoreau
What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness. -- Saint Basil
Much spends the traveller, more then the abider. -- George Herbert
Warren spends 70 hours a week thinking about investing . -- Charlie Munger
Government spends somebody else's money on somebody else. -- Milton Friedman
Every group spends more when its income grows. -- Bob Frank
Love spends his all, and still hath store. -- Philip James Bailey
The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
General Motors spends more on health care than steel. -- Kathleen Sebelius
General Motors spends more on health care than steel -- Kathleen Sebelius
Anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
We must have government that spends less and does less. -- Tom Coburn
To understand someone, find out how he spends his money. -- Mason Cooley
I make my pictures for what Hollywood spends on lipstick, -- Maya Deren
I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself. -- Penn Jillette
He that gains well and spends well needs no count book. -- George Herbert
Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual. -- Bill Gates
Wherever God spends the day, He comes home to sleep in Rwanda. -- Naomi Benaron
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. -- Milton Friedman
What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends. -- John Ruskin
No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own. -- Mark Skousen
Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable. -- Morgan Freeman
Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it. -- Bill Gates
He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future. -- Francisco de Quevedo
The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth. -- Tony Snow
The man spends half of his life trying, and the other half is preventing. -- Davi Oliveira
She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig. -- Margot Asquith
The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you. -- John Marsden
I don't think so. Anyways, I don't spend money. My wife spends money...sorry wife. -- Mikhail Grabovski
Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives. -- Veronica Roth
Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god. -- Martin Luther
EVE:so thats the bathroom where shane spends houres doing his hair shane:bite me -- Rachel Caine
A real leader spends his time fixing the problem instead of finding who to blame. -- David Cottrell
Don't ask a man what is important to him. Watch how he spends his time -- Dale Carnegie
An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined. -- Dick Armey
A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half. -- Ann Landers
The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change. -- Tom Waits
We should realize that the average family in America spends five minutes a week on politics. -- Celinda Lake
A person can't choose where he's born. But he can choose where he spends his life. -- Anthony Capella
When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf. -- Aja Monet
He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest. -- FranÃ§ois Lelord
I sort of consider myself a Nigerian who spends a lot of time in the U.S. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time. -- Marilynne Robinson
I suppose the longer anyone spends on earth, the closer we all get to becoming superfluous characters. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments. -- Samuel Johnson
Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. -- Umberto Eco
We must move from revenue-neutral to revenue-reducing tax reform, because the federal government spends far too much money. -- Carly Fiorina
The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending. -- Grover Norquist
Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators. -- Abdus Salam
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I refuse to have a life partner who spends his days pretending to be on a BBC show. -- Lisa Lutz
She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people. -- Catherynne M. Valente
If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large. -- Peter Drucker
50% of Americas population spends less than 10 dollars a month on romance. You know what we call these people? Men! -- Jay Leno
Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes. -- Helen Rowland
[T]he burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends. -- Milton Friedman
The amount of time that a young girl spends wearing pink will be inversely proportional to her future income. -- Sandra Lerner
He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend. -- Owen Feltham
The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent. -- Che Guevara
Has the pope questioned the faith of any communist leaders? He spends a lot of time in communist countries. -- Rush Limbaugh
Has the pope questioned the faith of any communist leaders? He spends a lot of time in communist countries. -- Rush Limbaugh
The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that. -- Pat Paulsen
We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women. -- Michelle Bachelet
A smart wife is one who makes sure she spends so much that her husband can't afford another woman. -- Miriam Defensor Santiago
When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it. -- Danny Pudi
The way a person spends his money and time can tell a lot about the things he or she values. -- Sarah Tse
A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married. -- Kin Hubbard
Happiness isn't something she spends much time thinking about. Survival, discomfort, hunger...these are the concerns that fill her days. -- David Maine
The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing. -- Sherrod Brown
A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back. -- E. W. Howe
SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing. -- Philip Greenspun
It is always a bit hypocritical when a defender who spends the whole game kicking you complains of being kicked. -- Luis Suarez
Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won't be reporting it. The thief spends less than my wife did -- Henny Youngman
The painter's appreciation for beauty is more conscious, for he spends his life trying to communicate his feelings to others. -- Emile Gruppe
I've always seen my work as trying to make the connection with men who no one really spends time with. -- Laurel Nakadate
If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen. -- Roger Rosenblatt
When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. -- Harper Lee
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository. -- Marian Seldes
Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing. -- Ernest Becker
The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate. -- Bill Gates
He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l. -- Benjamin Franklin
If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it's an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army. -- Ezra Klein
Ready-to-wear is what I've wanted to do since the beginning. ... I'm not a girl who spends my life in a ballgown -- Vera Wang
I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't be happier. -- Rebecca Loos
Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people. -- Betsy Lerner
It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money. -- Arthur Laffer
A nation that spends billions to fix international problems will not have much left over for the victims of tornadoes in Oklahoma. -- Deacon Jones
A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity. -- Vin Diesel
A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair. -- Steve Martin
How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives. -- Tim Walberg
America spends billions of dollars protecting the borders of other countries around the world. It's high time we start protecting our own. -- Kellyanne Conway

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