"Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than anyone else?"

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Source : "Takes: Sheldon Adelson's switch" by Jon Michaud, www.newyorker.com. January 10, 2012.

Sheldon Adelson

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“The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.”
“They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young.”
“But in that moment she realized how false most smiles were and what a tremendous waste of time.”
“I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.”
“Real reading is a lonely activity.”
“With horror movies, a bigger budget is actually your enemy. You want to feel the rough edges, the handmade quality to good horror films. Its a genre that benefits from not having everything at your disposal.”
“I love Starbucks. Maybe thats a bit sad. But I definitely need my caffeine. Its what gets me out of bed in the morning.”
“Space is an environment of emptiness. It offers no possibility for natural adaptation to any living organism - and particularly not to the highly sophisticated creature, man. Yet man has the ability to resolve this paradox through his intellectual power and creative faculties.”

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