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		The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their officials and above all of Ministers. They need to know that they are under financial obligations to nobody, other than public lending institutions, except to the extent that they are publicly declared.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Bertie Ahern 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Walter Isaacson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The SBA should be redirected to focus on its core missions of capital access, contracting, and counseling, while reducing duplication, overlap, and wasteful spending. Doing so will greatly improve its ability to better advocate for small businesses. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Sam Graves 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Colum McCann 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The contrasts and contradictions that can permanently live peacefully side by side in a skull make all the systems of political optimists and pessimists illusory. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Albert Einstein 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that in 2016, the corporate income tax raised $300 billion in revenue, while what it called 'targeted subsidies' cost about $270 billion. In other words, Congress could eliminate the subsidies and cut the corporate rate nearly in half without any significant loss in revenue. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				James B. Stewart 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We're all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Bette Midler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Love for the Lord is not an ethereal, intellectual, dreamlike thing; it is the intensest, most vital, most passionate love of which the human heart is capable. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Oswald Chambers 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We decided to place the motor to one side of the man, so that in case of a plunge head first, the motor could not fall upon him. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Orville Wright 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Oprah Winfrey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Actually I am having so much fun, it has been the most fun time now that it has been announced and I don't have to, you know, it was really difficult to conceal, but now that I can be proud and excited about it I'm having so much fun shopping - it's great. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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				Destiny's Child  
			
			
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener— a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Dale Carnegie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Betty Smith