"As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea."

-- John Podhoretz

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“I shall assume that your silence gives consent.”
“Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.”
“Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.”
“But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'”
“I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.”
“All children want to do is play in worlds they create and project on their external world. If allowed to do that, they are constantly building new neural structures for creating internal worlds and projecting them on their external world. And they build up an enormous self-esteem and feeling of power over the external world through their own capacities.”
“A poet is a painter of the soul.”
“I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don't want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone's throat. People are hungry for something of more substance.”

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