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- The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You…
- Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It is about telling.…
- In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature of the:Â process:Â…
- Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people's decisions is to use the word 'ask'-as in 'We are just asking everyone to pay…
- Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of failure of new…
- In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is…
- No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most…
- It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people…
- It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay…
- Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage…
- Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
- All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not…
- Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of…
- Hilary Clinton said you know, it takes a village to raise a child and somebody said it takes a village idiot to believe that ……
- With various people complaining about "price gouging... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed"…
- Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men with families to feed have been forced to resort to…
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- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price. — Mary Kay Ash
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
- It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. — Isaac Asimov
- Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or… — Saint Augustine
- What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the… — Paul Auster
- I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' — Lauren Bacall
- I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If… — Lauren Bacall
- The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it. — Richard Bach
- You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption… — Michele Bachmann