Quotes 21 till 40 of 131.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.
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English history turned on Henry VIII and his desires, his whims almost. And it was down to Cromwell to make those desires happen. He was the guy that fixed it. He was also the guy that eased Henry's conscience. Because Henry VIII had an enormous, tender conscience and great theological knowledge.
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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
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Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.
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Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well.'
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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
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First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
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Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking.
War with Honour, Macmillan War Pamphlets, Issue 2 (1940) -
I'm not a big believer in the power of more regulation to fix things. I think it can almost be more dangerous because it provides the illusion that things have been fixed without the substance.
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I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
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If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
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If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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In Jeet Kune Do, it's not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed from what you have learned. It is not how much fixed knowledge you can accumulate, but what you can apply livingly that counts. 'Being' is more valued than doing.
The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996) -
In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants.
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