"One of the high spots of the decade for me was offering the bill which culminated in the tax act of 1986, which brought rates down. That was the most difficult problem to solve: how to make the tax system of the United States more fair. We tried to make it simpler, but we failed on that one."

-- Donald T. Regan

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“Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state”
“All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is . . . He must have models with which to agree . . . or outright oppose . . . for Nature seems to remain silence.”
“Watercolor is an alchemical medium - colors mixing with water, joining with it, being extended by it - creating new life where none had been before.”
“President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election.”
“There is always a third possibility, as long as you have the ability to find it.”
“I walk into a company office and I can tell often whether I'm gonna invest, as soon as I walk in.”
“Sam picks the stone up and clenches his entire body in deep concentration. Nothing happens. " Oh come on," he says to the stone. " I promise to use it for the power of good. No girls' locker rooms, I swear.”
“Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.”

Source : Giambattista Vico (2015). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”, p.27, Cornell University Press

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