"We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality."

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Source : Arthur C. Brooks (2011). “The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future”, p.63, Basic Books

Arthur C. Brooks

#Running Quotes #Entrepreneur Quotes #Income Quotes

“There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.”
“What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.”
“Habitual caution ties and binds us; it is as if we were dressed always in clothes and shoes that were several sizes too small.”
“The thing about happiness is that it doesn't help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I've had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me.”

Source : Lana Turner (1982). “Lana--the lady, the legend, the truth”, Dutton Adult
“I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.”
“What we initially conceived as a fairly simple geologic experiment on Mars ultimately turned into humanity's first real overland expedition across another planet. Spirit explored just as we would have, seeing a distant hill, climbing it, and showing us the vista from the summit. And she did it in a way that allowed everyone on Earth to be part of the adventure.”
“I really didn't have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didn't take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook.”
“There is a wealth of information built into us ... tucked away in the genetic material in every one of our cells ... without some means of access, there is no way even to begin to guess at the extent and quality of what is there. The psychedelic drugs allow exploration of this interior world, and insights into its nature.”

Source : Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

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