"The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force."

-- Mervyn King

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“The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.”
“I am not a spiritual guy, but all of a sudden I felt the need to really feel things”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To define [Canada] or its literature seems like putting a finger on Zeno's arrow: no sooner do you think you have done it than it has moved on.”
“Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.”

Source : Howard Staunton (1848). “The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess”, p.2
“The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.”
“Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.”
“It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.”
“The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people,”

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