"A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal eÇŒoyments, it only shifts expenses from one to another.But when it encroaches on productive consumption it diminishes public riches."

-- Antoine Destutt de Tracy

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“Don't be that guy that's laying in that hospital bed going, 'I wonder what would have happened if I tried it?' The worst thing that could happen is that it doesn't work.”
“In fashion, there are so many gangs, if you identify too much with one, you get caught - I would lose my freedom.”
“To simplify things down to their real essence, whenever things go wrong in our lives, whenever our plans go awry and the things we took for granted suddenly disappear, we have a very simple choice. We can either succumb to despair and assume the attitude of the put upon victim, powerless to change our fate, or we can decide to turn the tragedy into an opportunity.”
“Wealth comes from knowing what others do not know.”
“My job is to make people happy. And the people that I make happy, make me happy.”
“The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.”
“The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.”
“Redd's face contorted with a sudden realization. "How could I have been so stupid?" The Cat was trying to decide if this was a rhetorical question when she roared, "It's a construct!" With a dismiissive swing of Redd's arm, Alyss and her army began to shimmer, the billon points of engery that formed them monentarily visible before exploding apart into nothing. Redd scoped the queendom with her imagination's eye. "Where are you, Alyss? Where is my dear little niece?”

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