Daniel J. Mitchell Quotes
According to the Tax Foundation, taxes now consume more than 38% of the average family's budget. That is more than is spent on food, clothing, housing, and transportation combined. Compare this to the plight of medieval serfs. They only had to give the lord of the manor one-third of their output - and they were considered slaves. So what does that make us?Daniel J. Mitchell
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There is something about poverty that smells like death.
Zora Neale Hurston -
Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
Orison Swett Marden -
Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.
Rob Zombie -
The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat - & as soon as you begin to act in harmony with nature the Law garottes & strangles you - so don't play the blessed liberal middleclass martyr - accept the fact that you're a criminal & be prepared to act like one.
Peter Lamborn Wilson -
I don't take sports seriously although I like that Scottish thing where they throw the poles. I'm down with that.
Peter Buck R.E.M. -
Cosmic love is absolutely Ruthless and Highly Indifferent: it teaches its lessons whether you like/ dislike them or not.
John Lilly
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Success is the reward for toil.
Sophocles -
Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Petrarch -
If you're doing your job right, some substantial group of people [is] going to be mad at you.
Paul Krugman -
I don't care if you think I'm racist. I just want you to think I'm thin.
Sarah Silverman -
Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.
Diane Ackerman
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What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.
Albert Camus -
I don't have to teach anymore, I don't have to work anymore, God has been really good to me.
Richard Simmons -
Soon we shall be up there with Christ. God did not mean us to be happy without Him; but God would first have us to be witnesses for Him down here, to hold out as much light as we can.
George Wigram -
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey -
When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.
Wyclef Jean Fugees -
I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
Patricia Heaton
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According to the Tax Foundation, taxes now consume more than 38% of the average family's budget. That is more than is spent on food, clothing, housing, and transportation combined. Compare this to the plight of medieval serfs. They only had to give the lord of the manor one-third of their output - and they were considered slaves. So what does that make us?
Daniel J. Mitchell