"Taxation: how the sheep are shorn."

-- Edward Abbey

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“Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.”

Source : Marco Rubio's Conservative Political Action Conference speech, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.
“I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know”
“It's one of the bases of all human existence - the relation between parents and children, whether biologically or metaphorically. It's something we can never get away from, even in a civilization where we're controlled by robots. It's the basic relationship between mature people who represent paternal and maternal figures and young people. It's universal - it's part of human existence. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way if humans remain around.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.”
“People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I”

Source : "Falstaff for our times". www.theguardian.com. March 5, 1999.
“A perfect smile is too often missing from the faces of the world. If cricket can provide more smiles, it is doing its job.”
“It doesn't matter if you're delivering pizza or the president of a company, you still deserve to be treated well, and with dignity. Not everybody feels that way, unfortunately, and I experienced that first hand.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“People are tempted to politicize the fact that I paint black figures, and the complexity of this is an essential part of the work. But my starting point is always the language of painting itself and how that relates to the subject matter.”

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