"I think it's terrible for people in effect to say that income from investment should be taxed at a much lower rate than income from labor."

“We meet no ordinary people in our lives.”

“Today, life will offer me many lessons. I will learn nothing.”

Source : "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

“Pessimism is carefully cultivated in some intellectual circles, as if it were a precious plant that the human race could not afford to lose.”

Source : Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

“It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist.”

Source : Murray N. Rothbard (2015). “The Ethics of Liberty”, p.163, NYU Press

“Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. some people are better at hiding it than others.”

“The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.”

Source : "Q&A: Cheryl Hines on Suburgatory and Being 'Cheryl'". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. October 17, 2012.

“Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.”

“The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.”

Source : Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.526, Harvard University Press