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- When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of… — 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… — 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… — Malala Yousafzai
- What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due… — 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,… — William James
- Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given;… — 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… — 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… — Oscar Wilde
- Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even… — Germaine Greer
- There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less… — Charles Caleb Colton