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Income Quotes
"The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California."
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"Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense."
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"When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall."
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"There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income."
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"There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!"
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"These days an income is something you can't live without - or within."
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"I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes."
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"Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity."
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"Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?"
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"If I can generate enough income, I'd like to get a castle, a historic castle that I can restore."
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"The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value."
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"I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income."
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"The income from sales now covers the expense of materials but I expect this to improve."
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"So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive."
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"Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income."
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"There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail."
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"I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income."
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"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
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"If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins."
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"But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect."
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"My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way."
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