"I can understand where the oil company wants to deduct the cost of drilling a well. That's one of the tax breaks for oil companies - the subsidies - they get to deduct the cost of the well the year you drill."

-- Dan Benishek

#Years Quotes #Oil Quotes #Subsidies Quotes

“All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.”
“We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom does. It is not a kingdom, but a common-wealth; a democracy, and therefore puzzling and unaccountable from the former point of view.”

Source : Asa Gray (1973). “Letters of Asa Gray”
“Our treasure is what we fear losing, and I fear that we fear losing our treasure. We are lovers of money.”
“It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.”
“Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.”
“You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul.”
“The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.”
“In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it's the one.”

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