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No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local,… — Rita Mae Brown
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life. — Aristotle
The survey findings reflect the growing trend toward incentive compensation programs as a way for employers to share the wealth with workers, ... Roughly 80… — Jerry Jasinowski
The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from the most general to the… — John Hughlings Jackson
The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness. — Daniel Gilbert
Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for… — Shana Alexander
In the yogic tradition, this principle of using intense effort to burn through life's distractions is called Tapas. It's another Sanskrit word, roughly defined as… — Russell Simmons
Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a critical portion of… — Frances Ford Seymour
States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent. States are violent… — Noam Chomsky
Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well,… — Noam Chomsky
Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the… — Aleister Crowley
Itâ€™s a world where high school students look roughly twenty-four. — Jane Lynch
The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same… — Eric Clapton
After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new… — Bob Ney
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by… — Giorgio Vasari
But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round… — Margery Allingham
To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly… — Steve Carlton
With all of the talk about polling and demographics, I think too many people have lost touch with the human and moral crisis of deportations.… — Arlene Holt Baker
To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than… — Malcolm Gladwell
Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere. — Joseph J. Romm

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