"There is apparently nowhere a workable majority in the representative assemblies for making the specific cuts in expenditure which could bring down the taxes, and in election after election the people vote into power representatives who are as unable as they are unwilling to do anything about it."

-- Gunnar Myrdal

#Cutting Quotes #People Quotes #Majority Quotes

“Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism - revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life.”

Source : "A New Theory of the Universe: Biocentrism builds on quantum physics by putting life into the equation". theamericanscholar.org. March 1, 2007.
“To be is to be related.”
“Relax," Langdon whispered. "Do your piranha thing.”
“I have always disliked the morning, it is too responsible a time, with the daylight demanding that it be 'faced' and (usually when I wake for I wake late) with the sun already up and in charge of the world, with little hope of anyone usurping or challenging its authority. A shot of light in the face of a poor waking human being and another slave limps wounded into the light-occupied territory.”

Source : Janet Frame (1972). “Daughter Buffalo”
“Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.”
“We're the only nation in the world where most of our poor people are fat.”
“A tree falls the way it leans.Â Be careful the way you lean.”
“I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.”

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