No Money Down

I know youre disappointed
In the way I handled things
Youre thinking I misread the times
And acted cowardly
And since what I do affects us both
And you feel that I let you down
Youre paying a price when there is no price to pay
Lovers trust, no money down
Youre paying a price when there is no price to pay
Lovers trust, no money down
(hey! lover)
(hey! lover)
(lover)
They say theres someone for everyone
And for everyone a someone
And some tattoo roses across their chests
With a heart that says rollo
And some work without a public relations man
And do their best work, baby, out of sight
Youre paying a price when there is no price to pay

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song performed by Lou Reed
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Earnings are of little use if one doesn't know how to save.

Sicilian proverbs
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Nowhere

I am afraid lest you takeaway
Everything that are yours
I am unable to do anything.
I am in levity that I am here
Only just to do your work
For some remuneration.
I have done nothing
I am afraid lest you dismiss me
And I would be nowhere.

poem by Gajanan Mishra
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Fee

Fee
In the cool shade of the banana tree
On the rugged trail toward the balcony
A child of the twentieth century
A dried up goliath and a weasel named fee
Far away in another place
A fading beauty named milly grace
A gospal singer with pox on her face
And a bamboo cane to help her keep the pace
Fee was a buddhist prodigy
Long past the age of maturity
Someday he knew it would set him free
Like it did for floyd the chimpanzee
Oh, fee, youre trying to live a life
Thats completely free.
Youre racing with the wind
Youre flirting with death
So have a cup of coffee
And catch your breath
Fee first met milly in a bar in peru

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song performed by Phish
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Nobody wages war with ghosts.

African proverbs
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In my case, I pay a standard premium to participate in the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Plan for my wife and myself out of each month's paycheck.

quote by Virgil Goode
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No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

quote by Jon Corzine
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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

quote by Lord Byron
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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

quote by George Byron
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It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.

quote by Charles A. Jaffe
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The best payment is on the peck bottom.

British proverbs
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Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others.

quote by Tim Bishop
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The Wage-Slaves

Oh, glorious are the guarded heights
Where guardian souls abide--
Self-exiled from our gross delights--
Above, beyond, outside:
An ampler arc their spirit swings--
Commands a juster view--
We have their word for all these things,
No doubt their words are true.

Yet we, the bond slaves of our day,
Whom dirt and danger press--
Co-heirs of insolence, delay,
And leagued unfaithfulness--
Such is our need must seek indeed
And, having found, engage
The men who merely do the work
For which they draw the wage.

From forge and farm and mine and bench,
Deck, altar, outpost lone--

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poem by Rudyard Kipling
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I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.

quote by George Herman
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TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.

quote by Norman Lear
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Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.

quote by Russ Carnahan
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Blame is the lazy man's wages.

Danish proverbs
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Nobility is what is earned by those who have no other earnings.

Chinese proverbs
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It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.

quote by Jessica Savitch
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If we're going to spend more money, it should go to the soldiers, Marines, and airmen to increase their salaries.

quote by David Hunt
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