"Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much as the rest of us hate it"

-- Nicholas von Hoffman

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“In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.”
“I'm very consistent about spending time with family. And when you have dinner with your daughters - they'll keep you in your place and they'll teach you something about perspective.”
“Sometimes when daughters have a bad-girl mother, they rebel and become good girls. They are constantly embarrassed by me!”
“He taught them that the purpose of a man is to make his life holy--every aspect of his life: eating, drinking praying, sleeping. God is everywhere, he told them, and if it seems at times that He is hidden from us, it is only because we have not yet learned to seek Him correctly.”

Source : Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.124, Simon and Schuster
“There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.”
“Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.”

Source : John Esten Cooke, Robert E. Lee (2017). “General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous “Marble Man”: The Life & Legacy of Robert E. Lee, Including & Personal Writings, Speeches and Orders”, p.43, Madison & Adams
“One can buy anything with money except morality.”
“With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and needy. Rather than strengthening democracies, U.S. leaders have overthrown numerous democratically elected governments or other populist regimes in dozens of countries ... whenever these nations give evidence of putting the interests of their people ahead of the interests of multinational corporate interests.”

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