"The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the total tax burden grows beyond a bearable size, the problem of devising taxes that will not discourage and disrupt production becomes insoluble."

-- Henry Hazlitt

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“I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“When you have the Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee and the political director of the Romney campaign, and their two companies get $150 million at the end of the campaign for the 'fantastic' get-out-the-vote program... some of this borders on RICO violations.”
“You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.”
“Why are you lying awake, thinking that you're a terrible person? To keep my mind occupied when I can't sleep. Some people count sheep. I self-loathe.”
“A democracy in the Middle East must be more than a democracy in name only - it must live out its principles.”
“I did a movie with Clint Eastwood and I knew I wasn't going to be able to 'out-man' him.”

Source : "'The Campaign's' Dylan McDermott Reveals How He Broke the Ice His First Day on Set" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 10, 2012.
“And see the rivers how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave succeeding wave, they go A various journey to the deep, Like human life to endless sleep!”

Source : John Dyer (1822). “The Poems of J. D. The Life of J. D. by Dr. Johnson. The British Poets, Etc”, p.120
“Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome.”

Source : "Monte Irvin: Nice Guys Finish First". Book by Monte Irvin, www.washingtonpost.com. 1996.

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