"Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains."

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Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

Michael Hudson

#People Quotes #Income Quotes #Gains Quotes

“If I am correct, the use of a product based on modelessness and monoty would soon become so habitual as to be nearly addictive, leading to a user population devoted to and loyal to the product.”

Source : Jef Raskin (2000). “The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems”, p.68, Addison-Wesley Professional
“My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.”
“Sometimes you may feel like you are just about to realize your goal only to fall short. That is no reason to quit. Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.”
“You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life ...”

Source : Arthur Rimbaud (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.51, Oxford University Press
“Too much is unwholesome.”
“Donald Trump is the kind of guy that wants you to like him. He wants to be the centre of attention. A TV reporter is somebody who gives him a very grand stage, and I was the first national television correspondent following his campaign. So he wanted to charm me - and when he couldn't do that, he attacked. And it's the same thing he does every day with senators; he'll be charming with them and the next day he will go out and attack them on Twitter and if they don't fall in line. He toggles back and forth between these two aspects of his personality.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.”
“Out of the night you burn, Manhattan, In a vesture of gold-- Spun of innumerable arcs, Flaring and multiplying-- Gold at the uttermost circles fading Into the tenderest hint of jade, Or fusing in tremulous twilight blues, Robing the far-flung offices, Scintillant-storied, forking flame, Or soaring to luminous amethyst Over the steeples aureoled.”

Source : Lola Ridge (1918). “The Ghetto, and Other Poems”

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