T.R. Reid Quotes
It used to be that we taxed property - zapped farmers basically. And there were very rich people who didn't pay that much tax. So in 1913, they put in the income tax. It was incredibly popular. The tax we love to hate today.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
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My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.
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I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.
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There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.
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If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.
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The notion that we would condition Iran not getting nuclear weapons in a verifiable deal on Iran recognizing Israel is really akin to saying that we won't sign a deal unless the nature of the Iranian regime completely transforms. And that is, I think, a fundamental misjudgment.
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It used to be that we taxed property - zapped farmers basically. And there were very rich people who didn't pay that much tax. So in 1913, they put in the income tax. It was incredibly popular. The tax we love to hate today.
