The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Lobbyists know that a 0 percent tax rate on capital income is not, in fact, the lowest possible rate. There can be… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately… — Dennis Hastert Copy Share Image
The foundation of humility is truth. The humble man sees himself as he is. If his depreciation of himself were untrue,... it… — Henry Fairlie Copy Share Image
A dramatic unwinding of that relationship [between USA and China], by way of an aggressive trade policy, is one of the nightmare… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There are two types of depreciation. There is one where you're manipulating currencies. And that's not what Japan is doing. — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
If the man succeeds in becoming indifferent to the opinions of his neighbors he runs into another danger, that of a distorted… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body. — Xaviera Hollander Copy Share Image
The not-quite-sort-of lie works here too - often an ad will announce that "Congressman Johnson voted for a bill that gave tax… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through… — Elgin Groseclose Copy Share Image
He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I pay tax, and I pay federal tax, too. But I have a write-off, a lot of it's depreciation, which is a… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I feel no shame at being found still owning a share when the bottom of the market comes…I would go much further… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Consider how badly-built suburbia is. Many business buildings are not designed to outlast their tax depreciation periods, and the McHouses are made… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Dollar depreciation leads to higher inflation and ultimately forces foreign creditors to question their rationale and indeed their sanity for continuing purchases… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image