"Remember that all tax revenue is the result of holding a gun to somebody's head. Not paying taxes is against the law. If you don't pay your taxes, you'll be fined. If you don't pay the fine, you'll be jailed. If you try to escape from jail, you'll be shot. ... Therefore, every time the government spends money on anything, you have to ask yourself, 'Would I kill my kindly, gray-haired mother for this?'"

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Mother Quotes #Gun Quotes #Law Quotes

“If one stretches out the DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell, one obtains a two-yard-long thread that is only ten atoms wide. This thread is a billion times longer than its own width. Relatively speaking, it is as if your little finger stretched from Paris to Los Angeles.”

Source : Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.71, Penguin
“If any person should meddle with my cause, I require them to judge the best'.”
“Falling in love-you should go with it, regardless of whether or not your heart gets smashed. You'll be a better person.”
“My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.”
“You've got to connect with the things that you love.”
“I know a lot of actors picture themselves winning Academy Awards. I really just wanted to do a Christmas movie because it's the kind of movie that I really love to watch. I'm a sucker for the holidays.”
“In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.”
“The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.”

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