"The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall."

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Source : "Holes in the Net". www.economist.com. May 04, 2006.

Denis Healey

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“Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.”
“I wonder if we are seeing a return to the object in the science-based museum. Since any visitor can go to a film like Jurassic Park and see dinosaurs reawakened more graphically than any museum could emulate, maybe a museum should be the place to have an encounter with the bony truth. Maybe some children have overdosed on simulations on their computers at home and just want to see something solid--a fact of life.”
“And itâ€™d be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or the mysterious case of Thomas Clapper. Or the entire civic history of Seattle, Washington.”
“To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself.”

Source : Dacia Maraini, Dick Kitto, Elspeth Spottiswood (1999). “The Silent Duchess”, p.255, Feminist Press at CUNY
“As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part.”
“After 'Skins' I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.”
“People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife.”
“The ultimate aim of all science is to penetrate the unknown.”

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