"Much of the blame for the situation lies with the states themselves. They haven't been able to pass decent laws. For decades, tax authorities have been taking aim at the phenomenon of tax havens, and the most aggravating thing is that they aren't just in Bermuda or on the Cayman Islands, but right outside our front door."

-- Wolfgang Kubicki

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“I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.”
“But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.”
“Government is supposed to be about how we do things together, and we can do that much more together if we use technology smartly right now.”
“Most Oscar parties are pretty silly. They're really for people who like to schmooze.”
“Difficult folk, these women!”
“A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,â€ she said. â€œI was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")”
“I said from the very beginning, I don't want a big house, I don't want big grounds, I don't want the trouble with the maintenance and all of that.”
“What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don't know that we don't want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don't want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind.”

Source : "Over the Wall" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. November 19, 2012.

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