"Lobbyists know that a 0 percent tax rate on capital income is not, in fact, the lowest possible rate. There can be negative tax rates. There can be subsidies. There can be allowances for depreciation. Lobbyists are adaptive creatures."

-- Joel Achenbach

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“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”

Source : Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2010). “The Last Lecture: Lessons in Living”, Hodder Paperbacks
“Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.”
“Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.”
“I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .”

Source : "Song at the Year's Turning : Poems, 1942-1954" by R. S. Thomas". Book by R. S. Thomas, 1955.
“to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.”
“In the old days, a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it's seen as much more of an opportunity than a sellout, as a way to find fans who wouldn't have ordinarily come across their genre of music.”
“It takes courage to begin something, but it can take even more to end it.”
“We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own intelligence. How much better would we be if all three were working in unison?”

Source : "Erin Gray, Then and Now: an Interview". Interview with Patricia Vollmer, www.wired.com. October 16, 2012.

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