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21 quotes by 19 authors

When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses… — Grover Cleveland
Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted. — Mark Twain
[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the… — Thomas Sprat
I think everyone makes a mistake at least once in their life. The important thing is what you learn from it. That's why I have… — Malala Yousafzai
What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every… — G. M. Trevelyan
Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the… — William James
Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted. — A. Philip Randolph
Be kindly and just in your dealings with your men. Never play favorites. Make them feel that justice tempered with mercy may always be counted… — John A. Lejeune
Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled... — Christopher Hitchens
What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either… — Oscar Wilde
Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even more, free labor… — Germaine Greer
There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth… — Charles Caleb Colton
Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process… — A. Philip Randolph
There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is an activity reserved… — Henry Miller
He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the worldâ€™s heart beat at some terrible cost and… — Cormac McCarthy
I was on my back, looking up at Morelli through cobwebs, and my first thought was that the 7-Eleven victim had exacted revenge on me,… — Janet Evanovich
I didn't like the way I looked, the way I dressed and moved, what I achieved and what I felt I was worth. But there… — Bernhard Schlink
I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any… — Fanny Kemble
When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses… — Grover Cleveland
And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh:… — Bible

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