"We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force."

-- William Howard Taft

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“I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.”
“You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.”
“People were doing business with one another through the Internet already, through bulletin boards. But on the Web, we could make it interactive, we could create an auction, we could create a real marketplace. And that's really what triggered my imagination, if you will, and that's what I did.”
“Iâ€™ve loved the whole process. From previews to rehearsals, Iâ€™m in the best company. Iâ€™ve done one West End show before this but the excitement hereâ€¦itâ€™s incredible. Itâ€™s been a real education working on this, I donâ€™t feel worthy. The role is over the top, bold and ridiculous.”
“The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.”
“I don't want to leave my successor and my children to pay for France's debt.”

Source : "François Hollande annouces €10bn cut in public spending" by Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. September 09, 2012.
“There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.”
“In January we start saving money, getting out of credit card debt, funding our retirement accounts, and we're doing wonderful. Then, every single year like clockwork, starting in November, all of you fall into this trap that says, 'I have to buy this gift... I can't show up at this party and not have something for everybody.”

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