"Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands."

-- Learned Hand

#Patriotic Quotes #Law Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“Often low-income parents give their children every other thing they need for successful participation in school and the world of work except the planning and organizing skills and habit patterns needed to operate in complex settings. Many intelligent and able college students from low-income backgrounds confront these deficits when faced with a heavy assignment load. . . . These patterns are best acquired at an early age and need to be quite well developed by late elementary school or twelve or thirteen years of age.”

Source : James P. Comer (1995). “School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project”
“What I want out of my career is just to work.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Yes is like credit, No is like cash.”
“People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?”
“Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us.”

Source : "Are you heeding Ed Miliband's call to fly the Saltire across the UK?" by James Walsh, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2014.
“When you are motivating people to do amazing things, you have to win over both their rational side and their emotive side.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.”
“Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.”

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