"It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity."

-- William Vickrey

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“Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve. There's no reason why these problems shouldn't be easy, and yet they turn out to be extremely intricate. [Fermat's] Last Theorem is the most beautiful example of this.”

Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.
“You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.”
“We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. I want to hold you close like a lute, so that we can cry out with loving. Would you rather throw stones at a mirror? I am your mirror and here are the stones.”
“It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.”
“What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means.”
“I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.”

Source : Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.147
“My god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured being.”

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