"So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with."

-- Larry Wall

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Arms Quotes

“The British use a system where the profits a corporation reports to shareholders is what they pay taxes on. Whereas in America we require corporations to keep two sets of books, one for shareholders and one for the IRS, and the IRS records are secret. For publicly-traded companies, the British system would tend to align the interests of the government with the interests of the company because the company wants to report the biggest possible profit. Though, all wealthy countries have high taxes as wealth requires lots of common goods, from clean water to public education to a justice system.”

Source : "Our Indefensible Tax System". Interview With Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. April 11, 2006.
“...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position...Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.”
“I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.”

Source : Source: exiledpreacher.blogspot.com
“The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.”
“If I didnt do something perfectly, I had to do it again. I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head,”

Source : "Martha Stewart's Daughter Writes Tell-All About Mom: Juiciest Celeb Memoir?". www.foxnews.com. October 03, 2011.
“I have a career now, and I have to say, five years ago I didn't. I'm 50, and you never know what works, but I think part of that is because - in this way that can't be defined but which can be examined - we cannot work alone.”
“I'm really a pussycat and this [bad-boy] image has been totally overblown for 30 years. Sure, I used to rumble a little but I don't do that stuff anymore. I'm an old man now. When you reach your 50s, you realise that if you don't mellow, you won't last.”
“Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price; then you are to turn and assign to your record of it a cash value. If the selling is not necessarily a contradiction of the truth in the picture, it is so close to being a contradictionâ€”and the truth is always in shades of gray-that you are worn down by the threat.”

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