"The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect."

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Source : Jeremy Paxman (2001). “The English: A Portrait of a People”, p.128, The Overlook Press

Jeremy Paxman

#Ideas Quotes #Neglect Quotes #Approach Quotes

“One of the tax systems in the US is for wage earners. The government takes money from them out of each paycheck - so it knows how much they make, and those workers can't cheat to any significant degree. But the other tax system is for capital. Those with capital get to tell the government what they want to tell. They may get audited, but if their tax returns are of any size the government doesn't have enough of the smart auditors to figure out what's really going on. And there are the rules that allow you to do things like take in money today and pay taxes on it thirty years from now.”
“It is not whether you win or lose, but who gets the blame.”
“I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.”

Source : Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.130, New York Review of Books
“It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in line with physics, as a branch of the theoretical construction of the one real world and should adopt the same sober and cautious attitude toward hypothetic extensions of its foundation as is exhibited by physics.”
“The land monopoly always starts with conquest. Shot and shell are the coins of purchase, as Herbert Spencer said. Except by force of arms, nobody "owns" the earth, anymore than the moon, the planets, the stars themselves.”
“Sometimes itâ€™s the complication, which just lies in our minds”
“There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling.”
“Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.”

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