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“The tax that was supposed to soak the rich has instead soaked America. The beneficiary of the income tax has not been the poor, but big government. The income tax has given us a government bureaucracy that outnumbers the manufacturing work force. It has created welfare dependencies that have entrapped millions of Americans in an underclass that is forced to live a sordid existence of trading votes for government handouts.”
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“I started entering in a series of problems I had never occupied myself with - water, production, employment. I am learning. You can do so many things. However, I don't feel guilty for living well here.”
Source : Source: wwd.com
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“Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.”
Source : Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.100, New York Review of Books
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“And if there was one thing I'd finally figured out, it was that your mind is something you always CAN change.”
Source : Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.135, Scholastic Inc.
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“you have often seen in the cinema, erich, haven't you, that between extraordinary people extraordinary things like for example extraordinary love can arise. so we only have to be extraordinary and see what happens.”
Source : Elfriede Jelinek, Martin Chalmers (1994). “Women as Lovers”, p.57, Profile Books
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“What the American people don't understand is how Merrill Lynch or AIG or Lehman Brothers can reward people, and the entity fails. Not only do the shareholders lose, but the entities lose.”
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“You can make a lot of money. You can rule kingdoms or run huge businesses or control vast terrain. But if you're just doing it for yourself, you're not really a success.”
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“I think a lot of the people that stand by Donald Trump are deplorable. And the things that they say are deplorable.”
