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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. — Thomas Carlyle

Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species. — Alfred Marshall

I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits. — Alan Greenspan

Cold steel and discipline and the slight capital surplus necessary to move and organise armies constituted the sole defences. — Winston S. Churchill

Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness ... — William F. Buckley Jr.

The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country. — Arthur Laffer

Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive. — John Griffin Carlisle

We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises. — Theresa May

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus. — Bob Geldof

The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down. — Jerry Brown

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position. — Kenneth Lay

If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery. — Saint Basil

Lack of money always means a surplus of creativity, in the best case. — Joe Carnahan

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain. — Nick Cave

After aircraft production, the entertainment industry is America's largest source of trade surplus. — Tyler Cowen

The rich man never really gives anything, he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate means who really gives. — George Eastman

Capitalism's surplus was enough to sate any rational autocrat. — Anonymous

I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since. — Winston Churchill

Art always springs from a surplus of life — Marty Rubin

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues. — Andrew Mellon

I took the state of Ohio from an $8 billion hole and a 350,000 job loss to a $2 billion surplus and a gain of 350,000 jobs. — John Kasich

Outlaw embryo farming, but allow using surplus embryos. — Mitt Romney

I understood that within this bizarre universe that contained only him and me, there was an inexcusable surplus of one. — Kurt Stevens

The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body. — Henry David Thoreau

Give out of your surplus; support someone who's lacking. Give out a little even when lacking; it'll make someone lucky ... Have no excuse not to give! — Israelmore Ayivor

The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard. — Ron Paul

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others. — Andrew Carnegie

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. — Andrew Carnegie

Ever since the end of the nineteenth century, the problem of what to do with the surplus of consumption goods has been latent in industrial society. — George Orwell

Mortgages were less about getting people into property than getting them into debt. Someone had to absorb the surplus supply of credit. — Douglas Rushkoff

A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence. Page 115 — Sonia Sotomayor

Only humans dread. Dread is appropriate to nothing. It's the surplus of animal fear, it's never indicated, it's nothing but itself. — China Mieville

In the Age of Kali the meek and helpless will be preyed upon without mercy, and there will be a surplus of AK-47s. — Ian McDonald

I felt so many things at once that together, they combined to make nothing, a numbness, an absence of feeling caused by a surplus of feeling. — Hanya Yanagihara

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made. — Walead Beshty

Ohioans know that he inherited a mess and created a surplus. So, on election day, John [Kasich] will prevail in Ohio. — Tom Ridge

How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future? — David Gergen

Culture feeds on the sap of economics, and a material surplus is necessary, so that culture may grow, develop and become subtle. — Leon Trotsky

Any surplus is immoral. — Jenny Holzer

Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus ... We must demand, at least, intention. — Paola Antonelli

What works for Germany can't work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits. — George Soros

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment. — Marshall Field

When progress is in short supply bring a surplus of determination. — Wes Fesler

A young and clueless second-lieutenant straight out of the factory, I was very much surplus to the requirements. — Patrick Hennessey

Love and sex both cause mutation, just like I think desire isn't lack. It's surplus energy- a claustrophobia inside your skin - — Chris Kraus

The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies. — Walter Weyl

I don't know why it is, but women who have anything to do with Opera, even if they're only studying for it, always appear to run to surplus poundage. — P.G. Wodehouse

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus. — Aneurin Bevan

The bread of such a nation (living godly) shall be in constant supply. Talking of abundance, provision, prosperity, surplus etc. — Sunday Adelaja

With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Code sharing is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form of need. — Erik Naggum

How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won't be room for us. — Malcolm Forbes

Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources ... India's requirements and Canada's surplus are a perfect match. — Narendra Modi

The windows of army surplus stores constituted hymns to male powerlessness. — William Gibson

You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things. — Karl Marx

Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. — Ambrose Bierce

China is not looking for a trade surplus but wants to import more French goods. — Li Keqiang

Most of these first nine chapters prepare the ground for, and then introduce, the notion of surplus value. — Anonymous

Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay. — Benjamin Graham

Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy. — Cyril Connolly

Some people think insufficiency means weakness and surplus means strength, but this impression is wrong. — Sun Tzu

I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store. — Debby Ryan

You deserve a full time play; you can't be reserved. Engage your best stamina; you have my support ... You can't be a surplus ... ! — Israelmore Ayivor

Another is that the findings demonstrate that happiness is not the surplus of pleasant over unpleasant moments. Rather, — Yuval Noah Harari

In a slow-growing world that is short on aggregate demand, Germany's trade surplus is a problem. — Ben Bernanke

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil. — Daniel Yergin

Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it enables people to have no need of each other. — Bill McKibben

If they would rather die, ... they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. — Charles Dickens

A Criminal is the case of surplus of human energy directed in the wrong direction. — Mario Vargas-Llosa