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“It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They're paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That's not right.”
Source : "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 25, 2011.
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“But the most horrible spot .... lies....immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives in these ruinous cottages, behind broken windows, mended with oilskin, sprung doors, and rotten door-posts, or in dark, wet cellars, in measureless filth and stench....must surely have reached the lowest stage of humanity.”
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“Suppose there aren't any more A + days once you get to be twelve? Wouldn't that be something! To spend the rest of your life looking for an A + day and not finding it.”
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“The time you wait subtracts the joy The heads the angel you destroy”
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“I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.”
Source : "Fooling with Words". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 28, 1999.
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“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
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“You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly,”
Source : "The Anti-Cesar Millan / Ian Dunbar's been succeeding for 25 years with lure-reward dog training; how come he's been usurped by the flashy, aggressive TV host?" by Louise Rafkin, www.sfgate.com. October 15, 2006.
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“Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.”