Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Most books are surplus to the world's requirements, and I am going to sound very conceited here, but I am trying to write books that aren't just using up trees.
With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.
China is not looking for a trade surplus but wants to import more French goods.
I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.
A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before.
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.
I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.