"I believe that there should be a very much heavier progressive tax on very large incomes, a tax which should increase in a very marked fashion for the gigantic incomes."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

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“If anybody wants to engage in any kind of sexual activity with any consenting partner, that is their business. Anybody can do anything they damn well please, as long as the relationship isn't exploitive. And I don't feel that legality should have anything to do with it. There are certain bodily functions of mine which I will not allow to be supervised.”
“Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.”
“It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men”

Source : Charles Williams (2016). “The Image of the City and Other Essays”, p.141, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important”
“But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.”

Source : Anne Brontë, “The Narrow Way”
“The players I respected most were the toughest players, not those who talked a good game or blocked a shot and acted like a fool.”
“The theory [before the twentieth century] ... was that all the jobs in the world belonged by right to men, and that only men were by nature entitled to wages. If a woman earned money, outside domestic service, it was because some misfortune had deprived her of masculine protection.”
“Refined, intense, wise, stiring, immediate, subtile, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow. These translations are precious jewels. Like the erotic moods they investigate, these versions shimmer and startle with a palpable desire to be heard, and a mystical sense of impermanence. This is a transmission of a vital, extraordinary tradition.”

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