"Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay"

-- Milton Friedman

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“Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.”
“I never really thought about how when I look at the moon it;s the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.”

Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?”
“Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - or we believe in equality.”
“This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.”
“If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.”
“one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul”
“I tell the stories that are of interest to me.”

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