"Your generosity is reflected in what you do with your own money, not in what you do with other people's money. If I give a lot of money to charity, then I am generous. If you give a smaller fraction of your money to charity, then you are less generous. But if you want to tax me in order to give my money to charity, that does not make you generous."

-- Arnold Kling

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“I don't use "feelings" as a diminutive word. I'm trying to take feelings back. I think of everyone on the internet whose response to everything is: "#Feelings! This is important, this is real, this is significant!" That connects to power, too. Wanting to feel like you have power and control over your life.”
“He was looking at me, jsut as I'd thought he would be, but like Bert's, his light was not what I expected. No pity, no sadness: nothing had changed. I realized all the times I'd felt people stare at me, their faces had been pictures, abstracts. None of them were mirrors, able to reflect back the expression I thought one I wore, the feelings only I felt.”
“She turned her can'ts into can's and her dreams into plans.”
“Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man.”
“I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.”
“I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.”
“I've just found the stories of the people I'm talking to much more interesting than my reactions to them.”
“The next time that we meet we meet as enemies!”

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