"In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by whatever name they may be known, whether by the name of tribute, tythe, tallage, impost, duty, gabel, custom, subsidy, aid, supply, excise, or other name."

-- Joseph Story

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“Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.”
“I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.”
“When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.”

Source : "Are we ever going to make this picture?". Interview with Alex Williams, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2003.
“My goal is to write stories that are connected, but not sequels in any meaningful sense. Like Howard's Conan tales or Leiber's Fahrrd & the Great Mauser stories.”
“One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are-as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation.”
“All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.”
“Some things cannot be explained. This is part of the magic of life. There cannot be a word or an idea or a definition attached to everything.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“As white snowflakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day, answers to prayer will settle down upon you at every step you take, even to your dying day. The story of your life will be the story of prayer and answers to prayer.”

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