"In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

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“I had gotten to know the music scene there, and just fell in love with it. I've lived there a little over four years now. There's a charm to Denton. The musicians in Denton are all very talented, but they're also all very accessible and very community-oriented.”
“The twentieth century saw a professionalization of fiction writing, particularly in its second half and particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world - not so much mainland Europe, for example. This professionalization is a tragedy. Hand in hand with this - and I have no idea what the causal relations are - there has been a rise in the idea of The Author, so that today one often has the impression that what's selling the book is not the book but the author.”
“I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.”
“I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.”
“It is a rare man who can prevail in the face of comfort. Freedom is fragile and elusive, for rarely does the appreciation of it exceed the pleasure of being able to tell others what to do. There is but one tick on the accuracy scale between 'optimism' and 'denial.'”
“Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.”

Source : Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.815, Head of Zeus Ltd
“The diiference is that in the private sector you work for yourself, and as Prime Minister I work for every single Haitian - inside Haiti and outside - and for all those who love Haiti as well.”

Source : "Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe of Haiti: 'We don’t want to be known as an NGO nation'". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2013.

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