"You compare the nation to a parched piece of land and the tax to a life-giving rain. So be it. But you should also ask yourself where this rain comes from, and whether it is not precisely the tax that draws the moisture from the soil and dries it up. You should also ask yourself further whether the soil receives more of this precious water from the rain than it loses by the evaporation?"

-- Frederic Bastiat

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“It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.”
“Jesus Christ-" "Is Not here right now," the man in black replied,"and even if he were, he could not save you.”
“You are not what you think you are, but WHAT YOU THINK, the thoughts that habitually possess your mind, that is what you are”
“I did six internships, even though I was only allowed to do one. I had a paper with my advisor's signature on it that I would just forward for every new internship. I didn't get school credit, but I got away with giving free labor to everyone.”
“For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.”
“I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.”
“As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.”
“Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800.”

Source : "Eddie Redmayne On ‘My Week With Marilyn,’ And Which Old Screen Legend He Would Have An Affair With" by Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2011.

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