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• A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses-Hispanically owned or otherwise-pay taxes at the highest marginal rate.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, People, Political

  Remarks by the President to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. March 19, 2001.

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• It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.

  Florence Kelley

  Struggle, Mean, Forever

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• There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

  Gerald Finzi

  Birthday, World, Rooms

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• Being a cult figure in one's own lifetime I am afraid is not at all pleasant. However I do not find that it tends to puff one up: in my case at any rate it makes me feel extremely small and inadequate. But even the nose of a very modest idol cannot remain entirely untickled by the sweet smell of incense.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sweet, Idols, Smell

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• The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Jobs, Opportunity, Men

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Years, Progress

  "Scientists and writers pay tribute to Arthur C Clarke" by Sarah Knapton, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2008.

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• As an advocate of birth control I wish ... to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation.... On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Civilization, Class

  "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda". "Birth Control Review", (p. 5), October 1921.

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• The more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

  Hans Eysenck

  Recovery, Psychotherapy, Inverse

  Hans J. Eysenck, Glenn D. Wilson (2013). “The Experimental Study of Freudian Theories (Psychology Revivals)”, p.370, Routledge

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• It’s a curious thing. I suppose most people think of artists as impatient but I don’t know of any first-rate artist who hasn’t manifested in his career an appalling patience, a willingness to wait and to do his best now in the expectation that next year he will do better.

  Mark Van Doren

  Artist, Thinking, Years

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• The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.

  Andrew Sarris

  Achievement, Firsts, Artistic

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• Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased - not a reduced - flow of revenues to the federal government.

  John F. Kennedy

  Yield, Government, Years

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• It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus.

  John F. Kennedy

  Running, Cutting, Long

  Address to the Economic Club of New York, delivered 14 December 1962, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget....As the national income grows, the federal government will ultimately end up with more revenues. Prosperity is the real way to balance our budget. By lowering tax rates, by increasing jobs and income, we can expand tax revenues and finally bring our budget into balance.

  John F. Kennedy

  Jobs, Real, Mean

  "Radio and Television Address to the Nation on the Test Ban Treaty and the Tax Reduction Bill". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 18, 1963.

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• The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.

  Vannevar Bush

  Mean, Squares, Important

  "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush, www.theatlantic.com. July 1945.

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• Not my political ideas. Conservatism didn’t buy this house. First and foremost I’m a businessman. My first goal is to attract the largest possible audience so I can charge confiscatory ad rates. I happen to have great entertainment skills, but that enables me to sell airtime.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Skills, Ideas, Goal

  "Late-Period Limbaugh". www.nytimes.com. July 6, 2008.

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• To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess.

  Mikhail Tal

  Play, White, Degrees

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• Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Rocky Marciano is second only to Louis. Where do I rate Ali? Somewhere below me. I beat him, and if I could beat him, no doubt Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano could have beaten him.

  Joe Frazier

  Champion, Heavyweights, Doubt

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• A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Germs, Persons, Harmonious

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2016). “The Complete Collection (with the book "The Power of the Spoken Word")”, p.84, Florence Scovel Shinn

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• I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all those techniques. If your plane crashes into the jungle somewhere, he would be the guy you would want to have with you.

  Wes Anderson

  Eagles, Play, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If we did go into a recession, something that's always possible for the U.S. or Europe, we could lower interest rates and expand the money supply without worrying about the price of gold.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Europe, Worry, Gold

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• Well you know I've attracted a lot of criticism by, for example, suggesting that child benefit should be taken away from higher rate taxpaying families.

  George Osborne

  Children, Taken, Criticism

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• I shall no doubt be blamed by certain scientists, and, I am afraid, by some philosophers, for having taken serious account of the alleged facts which are investigated by Psychical Researchers. I am wholly impenitent about this. The scientists in question seem to me to confuse the Author of Nature with the Editor of Nature; or at any rate to suppose that there can be no productions of the former which would not be accepted for publication by the latter. And I see no reason to believe this.

  C. D. Broad

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Taken

  "The Mind and Its Place in Nature".

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• There are philosophical issues involved in that about choosing the right discount rate, the value, the future, and things like that which drive it. But its start with the premise that global warming is real and if you're a denier of that fact, then you're not going to find climate change mitigation policies to have particular appeal.

  Brad Carson

  Real, Philosophical, Issues

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• Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it's also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates.

  Van Jones

  Home, Recovery, Cutting

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• It's funny that they've called homosexuality a crime... At this rate, everyone will be a criminal.

  Kangana Ranaut

  Law, Criminals, Crime

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