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Quote by Wilfrid Laurier
It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle

It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it. – Wilfrid Laurier

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Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children. – Wilfrid Laurier

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Future
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For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business. – Wilfrid Laurier

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Politics
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Wilfrid Laurier
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I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization. – Wilfrid Laurier

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Faith
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Its very difficult to break into motion pictures, but its oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance. – Mark Rydell

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finance

Weve taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well. – Jeffrey Sachs

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finance

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that. – Jeroen Dijsselbloem

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Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, theres a huge number of people up for them. Im not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film. – Joely Richardson

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There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages. – Henry David Thoreau

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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. – Hannah Arendt

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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith. – Randall Terry

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It is foolish to tear ones hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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