Taxes Quotes - Page 19

• The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.

  Judith Martin

  Inspirational, Children, Growing Up

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• This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)

  Albert Einstein

  Income, Philosopher, Form

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• Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money

  Keith Richards

  Littles, Preaching

  Keith Richards (2010). “Life”, p.94, Hachette UK

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• Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

  Thomas Paine

  War, Raised

  "Selected Writings of Thomas Paine".

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• I would have thought you'd import an English staff?" "Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors.

  Dan Brown

  Heaven, Wish, Chef

  Dan Brown (2004). “The Da Vinci Code”, Doubleday Books

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• He had a carrying, congressional sort of voice, the kind that sounded good saying things like Less of a tax burden on the middle class and Thank you for your donation and Honey, could you bring me my sweater with the duck on it?

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Class, Voice, Ducks

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.115, Scholastic Inc.

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• The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward freedom, the drive to escape?

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Agony, Car

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• I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Sales Tax, Patch Cipriano, Patch And Nora

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.772, Simon and Schuster

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• Quentin had an obsolete sailing ship that had been raised from the dead. He had psychotically effective swordsman and an enigmatic witch-queen. It wasn't the Fellowship of the Ring, but then again he wasn't trying to save the world from Sauron, he was trying to perform a tax audit on a bunch of hick islanders.

  Lev Grossman

  Queens, Sailing, Trying

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.353, Penguin

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• After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.

  Howard Coble

  Believe, Government, Years

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• You compare the nation to a parched piece of land and the tax to a life-giving rain. So be it. But you should also ask yourself where this rain comes from, and whether it is not precisely the tax that draws the moisture from the soil and dries it up. You should also ask yourself further whether the soil receives more of this precious water from the rain than it loses by the evaporation?

  Frederic Bastiat

  Rain, Land, Giving

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• We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

  William James

  Effort, Digging, Littles

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.62, Nuvision Pubns

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• Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom to not pay taxes and discriminate based on race; freedom to hold different ideas and express them, not so much.

  Paul Krugman

  Mean, Race, Ideas

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• This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without love. A world where children crack their heads on stone fireplaces and nearly gnaw off their tongues and the parents are concerned. Not heartbroken, frantic, desperate. Concerned, as they are when you fail mathematics, as they are when they are late to pay their taxes.

  Lauren Oliver

  Heartbroken, Children, Order

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• And they all lived happily ever after (barring death, divorce, arrest for tax fraud, that incident with the pool boy...)

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Divorce, Boys, Ever After

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• As for loving woman, I have never understood why some people had a fit. I still don't. It seems fine to me. If an individual is productive responsible, and energetic, why should her choice in a partner make such a fuss? The government is only too happy to take my tax money and yet they uphold legislation that keeps me a second class citizen. Surely, there should be a tax break for those of us who are robbed of full and equal participation and protection in the life of our nation.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Loving Life, Government, Class

  Rita Mae Brown (1987). “Poems”

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• We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.

  Jean Vanier

  Clever, Powerful, Thinking

  Jean Vanier (2003). “Finding Peace”, p.53, A&C Black

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• Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and create new jobs which are critical components of economic growth, particularly within the small business community.

  Howard Coble

  Jobs, Community, Growth

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• The generals who had called Zia a mullah behind his back felt ashamed at having underestimated him: not only was he a mullah, he was a mullah whose understanding of religion didn't go beyond parroting what he had heard from the next mullah. A mullah without a beard, a mullah in a four-star general's uniform, a mullah with the instincts of a corrupt tax inspector.

  Mohammed Hanif

  Stars, Understanding, Four

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• I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical, political, or economical; whether it affects well-being, morality, equality, right, justice, progress, responsibility, property, labor, exchange, capital, wages, taxes, population, credit, or Government; at whatever point of the scientific horizon I start from, I invariably come to the same thing—the solution of the social problem is in liberty.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Religious, Believe, Philosophical

  Frederic Bastiat (2017). “The Law”, p.39, Lulu.com

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• It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.

  Phil Gramm

  Hands, People, Pay

  "Real revolution of George W. Bush", www.cnn.com. August 5, 2003.

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• Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.

  Clement Attlee

  Men, Charity, Want

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• I needed a vacation. I needed 5 women. I needed to get the wax out of my ears. My car needed an oil change. I'd failed to file my damned income tax. One of the stems had broken off of my reading glasses. There were ants in my apartment. I needed to get my teeth cleaned. My shoes were run down at the heels. I had insomnia. My auto insurance had expired. I cut myself every time i shaved. I hadn't laughed in 6 years. I tended to worry when there was nothing to worry about. And when there was something to worry about, i got drunk.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Reading, Cutting

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• Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle—like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.

  Dan Brown

  Morning, Block, Stress

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.377, Knopf

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• And it makes you wonder—how can a people incapable of selecting their own lightbulbs and toilets possess enough competence to vote for their own rulers and fill out complicated tax returns?

  Mark Levin

  People, Toilets, Return

  Mark R. Levin (2013). “The Liberty Amendments”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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