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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I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout. ~Samantha Stosur
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I think when it comes to botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices. ~Debra Winger
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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
#quotes #robert-bringhurst #writing #poetry #money

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. ~Ivan Turgenev
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
#quotes #anthony-trollope #law

At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #gambling

"Alien" asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. "The Matrix" delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing. ~Jason Reitman
#quotes #jason-reitman #writing #movies #reality

What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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If you want success, be unique. ~Natalie Massenet
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
#quotes #james-madison #communication #free-speech

Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
#quotes #tom-robbins #world

We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
#quotes #dodinsky #friendship

Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I am getting old and I need something to rely on. So tell me when you are going to let me in. I am getting tired and I need somewhere to begin. ~Bil Keane
#quotes #bil-keane #simplicity #tired

A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
#proverbs #hungarian-proverbs #debt

I am sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~Ray Davies
#quotes #ray-davies #time

Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans. ~Lynda Resnick
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Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change. ~Mitch Kapor
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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