Minimum
The least quantity assignable, admissible, or possible, in a given case; hence, a thing of small consequence; -- opposed to maximum.
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Minimum Quotations
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
Barack Obama
Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.
Morgan Freeman
The real minimum wage is zero.
Thomas Sowell
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
Quentin Crisp
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
Lenny Bruce
National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.
Kofi Annan
We have an incredible national forest service, and we have an incredible child outreach program that the president has put together. I don't see anything wrong with national service for a minimum of two years. If we were to require that, we wouldn't need a draft.
Montel Williams
I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
Jackie Kennedy
Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.
Daniel Radcliffe
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
Thomas Szasz
Minimum Translations
minimum in Afrikaans is minimum
minimum in Dutch is miniem, minimaal
minimum in French is mini, minimum
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