"Mortgage is one of the most popular deductions. It costs the Treasury about $103 billion a year. Now that's money we could use to treat wounded veterans or reduce the deficit or fill the border. Instead, we give it a subsidy to homeowners, and it goes mainly to the richest homeowners in America, because only one third of Americans itemize their deductions. It doesn't work. Many countries have gotten rid of the mortgage interest deduction. Almost all of them have higher homeownership rates than we do."

-- T.R. Reid

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“Thereâ€™s a virtuous cycle when people have to defend challenges to their ideas. Any gaps in thinking or analysis become clear pretty quickly when smart people ask good, logical questions. You canâ€™t be a good value investor without being an independent thinker â€“ youâ€™re seeing valuations that the market is not appreciating. But itâ€™s critical that you understand why the market isnâ€™t seeing the value you do. The back and forth that goes on in the investment process helps you get at that.”
“Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states.”
“The fear of hell is the basis for the Christian faith.”
“The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.”

Source : "Vincent Cassel: 'You can't escape from what you are'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2012.
“There's a lot of hip-hop that would be great with a banjo in it. It would just groove like crazy, and I hope I get to be one of the guys who does that, because it's coming. It's coming.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It is as if something somewhere were 'known' in the form of images - but not by us.”
“I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out. And I can sleep at night because I'm at peace with it.”

Source : "Discovering Columbus". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.
“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”

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