"The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased."

-- Michael Parenti

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“Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.”

Source : Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.15, Canongate Books
“Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.”
“When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.”

Source : "The Best of Interviews With Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Messner". “CNN Larry King Weekend”, www.cnn.com. June 24, 2001.
“If you don't want to call it a European army, don't call it a European army. You can call it 'Margaret', you can call it 'Mary-Anne', you can find any name, but it is a joint effort for peace-keeping missions - the first time you have a joint, not bilateral, effort at European level.”
“Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that is of value in drying and hardening the structure of thought. The greater value of indirect experience lies in its greater variety and extent. History is universal experience, the experience not of another, but of many others under manifold conditions.”
“Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.”
“Every time I'm close to you, there's too much I can't say, and you just walk away. And I forgot to tell you I love you.”
“Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.”

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