#paid

One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment. ↗

— Chris Christie

#care #career #course #entire #entire career

I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue. ↗

— Alonzo Church

#actually #been #continue #department #gave

I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#declare #diminishing #england #establishments #falls

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#coin #fashioned #governments #may #nations

Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard. ↗

— James J. Corbett

#glory #heard #paid #reward #she

My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous man who ran a shop in Dundee giving a lot of people tick. When he died, a lot of people hadn't paid their bills, so he died with a lot of debt. After he died, my mother went doolally. ↗

— Brian Cox

#aged #bills #breakdown #chic #debt

I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid. ↗

— Tyne Daly

#highly #i #morning #paid #paint

People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won't be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#believe #buying #by the people #carries #especially

I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#come #gets #i #i think #lots

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day. ↗

— Alma Guillermoprieto

#construction #day #get #job #mexico