"The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people."

Finance, Society, People, Right

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"The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people."

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"The value of money is subjective, depending on age. At the age of one, one multiplies the actual sum by 145,000, making one pound seem like 145,000 pounds to a one-year-old. At seven " Bertie's age " the multiplier is 24, so that five pounds seems like 120 pounds. At the age of twenty four, five pounds is five pounds; at forty five it is divided by 5, so that it seems like one pound and one pound seems like twenty pence. (All figures courtesy of Scottish Government Advice Leaflet: Handling your Money.)"

Alexander McCall Smith, British Author

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"The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength."

George W. Bush, American President

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"Money can't buy happiness but it will certainly get you a better class of memories."

Ronald Reagan, American President

Finance, Money, Happiness, Memory, Values

"It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me."

Bjorn Borg, Swedish Athlete

Finance, Financial, Security

"As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system."

Steve Israel, American Politician

Finance, Benefits, Help, Security

"I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do."

Penelope Spheeris, American Director

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"Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Finance, Debt, Story, Belief, Money

"Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple."

Scott Cook, American Businessman

Finance, Financial, Decisions, Years

"Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!"

John Buchanan Robinson, American Politician

Finance, Banks, Old, Woman

"The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the center of global economic activity with financial and trade ties to every region of the globe."

Timothy Geithner, American Public Servant

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"The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market."

Computer

"My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it."

Peace

"I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job."

Job

"I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France."

Nation

"The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation."

Community

"The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws."

Job

"The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility."

Driving

"My problem is how to find the best way of being useful."

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"The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility."

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"Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours."

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