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?
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There is something about poverty that smells like death.
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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.
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Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.
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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.
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I don't take sports seriously although I like that Scottish thing where they throw the poles. I'm down with that.
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Cosmic love is absolutely Ruthless and Highly Indifferent: it teaches its lessons whether you like/ dislike them or not.
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Success is the reward for toil.
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Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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If you're doing your job right, some substantial group of people [is] going to be mad at you.
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I don't care if you think I'm racist. I just want you to think I'm thin.
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Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.
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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.
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I don't have to teach anymore, I don't have to work anymore, God has been really good to me.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.
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You want to have strong legs. You're in the trenches going against bigger guys in there, and you want to be able to have some force against them.
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When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.
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We are not the slaves of laziness, we are the slaves of WiFi.
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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?
