#rates

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them. ↗

— Diogenes

#penetrates #polluted #sun #them #too

Every dollar of SNAP benefits generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity. If people are able to buy a little more in the grocery store, someone has to stock it, package it, shelve it, process it, ship it. All of those are jobs. It's the most direct stimulus you can get in the economy during these tough times. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#activity #benefits #buy #direct #dollar

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. ↗

— Simone Weil

#cells #communicate #communication #each #every

Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin. ↗

— Ron White

#anybody #anything #could #literally #me

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old. ↗

— Rosalyn S. Yalow

#excitement #learning #long #old #old age

The only question where there is disagreement is should the highest income rates above a quarter million dollars a year go back to where they were under Bill Clinton. That is the dispute about the taxes. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#above #back #bill #bill clinton #clinton

France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently. ↗

— Wilson Greatbatch

#build #differently #energy #fission #france

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#life #literature #looking #looks #loudly

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#conviction #convinced #degenerates #fools #however

We have one of the highest interest rates in the world, and we owe more money per capita than any other country. All we need is a nail hole in the bottom of the boat and we're sunk. ↗

— Pauline Hanson

#boat #bottom #capita #country #highest