Antoine Destutt de Tracy Quotes
A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts expenses from one to another.But when it encroaches on productive consumption it diminishes public riches.
Antoine Destutt de Tracy
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
Kabir Bedi
Even though I've danced with actors, it wasn't the same with NTR.
Rakul Preet Singh
I am more into the old school guy than I am with the new school guys. I came in young and I had to pay my dues to be considered a vet. To be able to play for over 10 years at wide receiver, that's why I like looking at the older guys like Larry Fitzgerald, Teddy Ginn Jr., Brian Hartline. That's what I'm about.
Randy Moss
I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
Rafael Nadal
Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
Faith Hunter
Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
Kaitlin Olson
'Love Aaj Kal' is not really a road movie, but it does involve some travel.
Imtiaz Ali
I understand them. I understand where they came from, what their lifestyle was there. But my parents didn't push us to be like them. They said do whatever you think right, but remember the important things in life.
Ofra Haza
People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
Ian Watson
Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
Carine Roitfeld
I don't want any yes – men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
Samuel Goldwyn
I think Bolano had a generosity about him that was unique. He seemed to include so many people in the circle of his adventures, whereas I felt like I was pretty selfish.
Sam Shepard
It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important.
Vera Wang
I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.
Harlan Coben
I would like to be known as one of the best actors in the world because that is something that I would have earned. And being sexiest would come from my genes... it is something I was born with and not earned it for myself.
Randeep Hooda
Jasmine apologized and said she was sorry and said she loved me, she couldn't believe it and said she thought it would be her. All of them were really, really sorry that it happened to me.
LaToya London
On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.
Samantha Morton
I am somebody who is fascinated with the theatrics of life, and how to represent those theatrics in a movie. For me, it's an honest way to express the fabrication that is in creating a film, the line that is drawn.
Azazel Jacobs
