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A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
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A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.
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A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futility.
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A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.
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A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.
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A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details.
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A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.
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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.
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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roué to retire upon.
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A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
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