"I am now being criticized (by the opposition) for being irresponsible for saying `I will not raise the consumption tax rate while I am in office,' ... But, when my successor does raise the consumption tax rate, it will not be simply a matter of being irresponsible. He will be criticized for raising the tax."

-- Junichiro Koizumi

#Office Quotes #Doe Quotes #Matter Quotes

“I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.”
“It really is understanding how to use money, and not let money use you.”
“Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years.”
“A good rule for mental conductâ€”think whatever it makes you truly happy to think.”

Source : Susan Gregg (2007). “The Complete Idiot's Guide to Short Meditations”, p.17, Penguin
“Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix it." Yet ... every time the government uses its money or its power to favor this group or that ... the net result is such a web of supports, subsidies, interventions and controls that it is almost impossible for a nation to find its way back into a dynamic system of really free enterprise.”
“The need to protect the environment has emerged as an undeniably important priority for me.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the drab and dowdy digger in the earth. He is the uncomely but intrepid defender of family, home, and bourgeois convention, and he will fight anything of any size that intrudes upon his smug existence. ... His eyes are small and lightless and capable of but one expression - suspicion. What he does not understand, he suspects, and what he suspects, he fights.”

Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.102, Open Road Media
“Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.”

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