#obtaining

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

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One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

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Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

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Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there. ↗

— Donna Rice

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If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. ↗

— Billy Sunday

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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

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The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

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Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

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