"If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business and invest it in tax-exempt securities or to find other lawful methods of avoiding the realization of taxable income. The result is that the sources of taxation are drying up; wealth is failing to carry its share of the tax burden; and capital is being diverted into channels which yield neither revenue to the Government nor profit to the people.”

Source : Andrew W. Mellon (2016). “Taxation: The People’s Business”, p.8, Pickle Partners Publishing
“A heavenly society is a harmony of many.”
“What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.”
“One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they Al Qaeda intend.”

Source : "At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA". Book by George Tenet and Bill Harlow (Chapter "They Want to Change History"), www.nbcnews.com. April 30, 2007.
“When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.”
“The radiation of radium was "contagious"-Contagious like a persistent scent or a disease. It was impossible for an object, a plant, an animal or a person to be left near a tube of radium without immediately acquiring a notable "activity" which a sensitive apparatus could detect.”
“Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese.”

Source : Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.313, Scholastic Inc.
“Today we are again witnessing the emergence of transnational elites ... [Whose] ties cut across national boundaries ...It is likely that before long the social elites of most of the more advanced countries will be highly internationalist or globalist in spirit and outlook ... The nation-state is gradually yielding its sovereignty... Further progress will require greater American sacrifices. More intensive efforts to shape a new world monetary structure will have to be undertaken, with some consequent risk to the present relatively favorable American position.”

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