"With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea."

-- Bruce Bartlett

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“Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.”
“Letting go doesnâ€™t just mean letting go of the past, but letting go of an unknown future; and embracing NOW.”
“I don't think that the reality of Cuba is perfect, but it doesn't cleave to the negativity, either, with which some people see it.”

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“For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest and highest sense of the term than there is at present.”
“I think grief and fear are going to come to him suddenly. They'll be undiluted and words won't work. We're all going to get hit and won't know how to hit back. I wish I knew the answers, how to help myself and the people who will hurt all around me.”
“The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.”
“I'm definitely influenced by lots of different things - from music, from reading, from I don't know... I have a lot of different sources of inspiration that I tap into when I need to get something done.”
“The walking delegates of a higher civilization, who have nothing to divide, look upon the notion of property as a purely artificial creation of human society. According to these advanced philosophers, the time will come when no man shall be allowed to call anything his. The beneficent law which takes away an author's rights in his own books just at the period when old age is creeping upon him seems to me a handsome stride toward the longed-for millennium.”

Source : THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH (1903). “PONKAPOG PAPERS”

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