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Next Page »Florence Nightingale: Money Spent
on Sunday, May 12, 2019Florence Nightingale Money Quote saying good record-keeping of hospital expenses would help us understand the state of that institution. Florence Nightingale said:
“[Hospital records] would show subscribers how their money was being spent, what amount of good was really being done with it, or whether the money was not doing mischief rather than good; they would tell us the exact sanitary state of every hospital and of every ward in it” — Florence Nightingale
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Kate Sheppard: Pay Taxes Voice
on Sunday, March 10, 2019Kate Sheppard Money Quote saying as a New Zealand suffragist that because women must obey the law and pay taxes, they should reasonably be expected to have a say in how they are affected by them. Kate Sheppard said:
“If we have to obey the law, then we ask for a voice in the making of that law. If we pay taxes … we want to have a voice in saying how that money is spent” — Kate Sheppard
Born March 10, 1847 – Died July 13, 1934 (Her work led to New Zealand becoming the first country to grant women the vote in 1893)
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Sheppard pictured on NZ $10 Note, Issued in 1999 by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand
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Gustave Eiffel: 1 Killed Million Spent
on Saturday, December 15, 2018Gustave Eiffel Money Quote saying in a seemingly cavalier way that there is an average number of lives lost to building major projects. Gustave Eiffel said:
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“It has been ascertained by statistical observation that in engineering enterprises one man is killed for every million francs that is spent on the works… In building the Eiffel Tower, which was a construction costing six million and a half, we only lost four men, thus remaining below the average” — Gustave Eiffel
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Bert Hellinger: Money Spent is Richer
on Tuesday, May 15, 2018Bert Hellinger Money Quote saying the true purpose of money is in use and circulation, therefore, to be hoarded makes it useless to life – spend it wisely so it can continue to serve it’s purpose. Bert Hellinger said:
“Money belongs to life, and it wants to be spent and passed on in the service of life. Money is happy to be spent. All the richer will it return to us” — Bert Hellinger
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Rick Yancey: Currency of Promise
on Sunday, March 18, 2018Rick Yancey Money Quote saying that when the only thing of value left are promises, they must be spent sparingly if they are to maintain their worth. Rick Yancey said:
Promises are the only currency left. They must be spent wisely
— Rick Yancey
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Fats Domino: Love Honey, Spent Money
on Wednesday, October 25, 2017Fats Domino Money Quote saying love cannot withstand abuse of money as in ‘Walking to New Orleans’. Fats Domino said:
“I use to love you honey, ’til you spent all my money” — Fats Domino
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Mitch McConnell: Trillion Dollars Context
on Saturday, October 21, 2017Mitch McConnell Money Quote saying that spending a trillion is just as much a fantasy as spending a million since the fantasy of the birth of Jesus. Mitch McConnell said:
“To put a trillion dollars in context, if you spend a million dollars every day since Jesus was born, you still wouldn’t have spent a trillion” — Mitch McConnell
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Donald Trump: U.S. Infrastructure Decay
on Friday, January 20, 2017Donald Trump Money Quote saying in a dystopian view of America that everything is crumbling while we spend our dollars outside the U.S. and create other countries wealth. Donald Trump said:
[We] spent trillions and trillions of dollars overseas while America’s infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay. We’ve made other countries rich while the wealth, strength, and confidence of our country has dissipated over the horizon
— Donald Trump