"I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet you there. We shall have a merry, merry time, for all our friends will be there. It will be an intellectual center, for no one understands the Income Tax Law except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it."

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Elihu Root

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“You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.”

Source : Bernie Mac (2002). “I Ain't Scared of You”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
“I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get to express that deeply individualistic side of ourselves.”
“They say you’re meant to live everyday as if it were your last, which I’ve always thought was daft, since no one would ever pay the gas bill if that was the case, but what if it were your first?”
“I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.”
“The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.”

Source : Ashley Montagu (1999). “The Natural Superiority of Women”, p.91, Rowman Altamira
“Reason necessarily expresses itself through emotions and emotions are healthy only insofar as they are expressions of reason.”
“Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.”

Source : Abraham Kuyper (1931). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.131, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating Christmas because there was not enough snow to go by sleigh to midnight Mass.”

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