#expend

It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

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I would say exploit the stupid, because they’re expendable and loyal, but it’s a fact: politicians are not loyal. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#exploit #exploitation #fact #loyal #loyalty

We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended. ↗

— Felix Adler

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I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it. ↗

— Francesca Annis

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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

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The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it. ↗

— Chester A. Arthur

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Expenditures rise to meet income. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

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With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures. ↗

— Ernst Engel

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Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures. ↗

— Chaka Fattah

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For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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