"Wal-Mart workers make just over $8 an hour, and they must pay more than a third of their health insurance premium if they choose to take the company's insurance. That means just about half of them don't choose to take the health insurance because they can't afford it."

-- Liza Featherstone

#Mean Quotes #Half Quotes #Pay Quotes

“The day you spend hoping, the day you spend waiting, the day you spend in despair, is a day in your life as much as the tomorrow you hope for, but which may never come, so betting today on tomorrow is always a bad bet.”

Source : Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”
“If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.”
“I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.”
“Dull winter will re-appear.”
“I can assure you that buying leases for x and selling them for 5x or 10x is a lot more profitable than trying to produce gas at $5 or $6 per million cubic feet.”

Source : "Mexico's 'mother of all oil and gas rushes' is about to get ugly" by Wolf Richter, www.businessinsider.com. September 10, 2015.
“The missionaries of Christianity had said in effect: You have no right to live among us as Jews. The secular rulers who followed had proclaimed: You have no right to live among us. The German Nazis at last decreed: You have no right to live.”

Source : Raul Hilberg (1973). “The destruction of the European Jews”, Octagon Press, Limited
“My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.”
“The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane communication."”

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