"Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money."

-- Alain de Botton

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“There are no golden geese. There are only fat geese eating the food that could nourish more athletic opportunities for women.”
“You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.”
“But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.”
“It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.”
“I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.”

Source : Interview with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. January 29, 2003.
“There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth”
“Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.”
“All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves we were all self-employed . . . finding our food, feeding ourselves. Thatâ€™s where human history began . . . As civilization came we suppressed it. We became labor because they stamped us, â€˜You are labor.â€™ We forgot that we are entrepreneurs.”

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