By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. ~John Podhoretz
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish Proverb
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school. ~David Bailey
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That is what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us. ~Kurt Busch
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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"Feminist comedy," practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. ~Grace Slick
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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I'm a mad Gummi fan. I always have Gummis in my trailer. But you can't eat too many because then you get Gummi tummy, and that's no good. I can't believe I'm saying this. ~Jensen Ackles
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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