"Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable."

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Source : "Tax Dodging by Big Businesses Hurts Our Kids and Is Not Sustainable" by James P. Hoffa, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2014.

James P. Hoffa

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“I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I've used that as I've got older. It's controlling: I decide what part of my personality you're seeing. I don't want you to look at me, I really don't. I don't want you to comment on my clothes, my hair or the way I look.”

Source : "Catherine the Great" by Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2006.
“Someone who doesn't make the (Olympic) team might weep and collapse. In my day no one fell on the track and cried like a baby. We lost gracefully. And when someone won, he didn't act like he'd just become king of the world, either. Athletes in my day were simply humble in our victory. I believe we were more mature then...Maybe it's because the media puts so much pressure on athletes; maybe it's also the money. In my day we competed for the love of the sport...In my day we patted the guy who beat us on the back, wished him well, and that was it.”
“At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes.”
“Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the objects of your conception to have. Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object.”
“Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness.”
“Don't underestimate the things that I will do.”

Source : Song: Rolling in the Deep, Album: 21, 2011
“There are plenty of fools in the world; but if they had not been sent for some wise purpose, they wouldn't have been here; and since they are here they have as good a right to have elbow-room in the world as the wisest.”

Source : Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1818). “Marriage [by S.E. Ferrier].”, p.332
“If you like something, go for it.”

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