"No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress."

-- Frederick The Great

#Art Quotes #Government Quotes #People Quotes

“let us die young, or let us live forever, We dont have the power but we Never say Never.. Sooner or later we all will be gone, y dont u stay young?”
“This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.”
“I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!”
“The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is full of surprises, humor, traps for the unwary, and challenges to smugness. It is a world of moods as well as of revelation, of beliefs and fears, of unpleasant truth as well as of delicious fantasy. Perhaps it is arrogant to say that anyone who does not venture into this world is only half-interested in life. I say it, nonetheless.”
“Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.”
“Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.”
“I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.”
“Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself.”

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