#al

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday. ↗

— Noel Coward

#always #am #due #having #i

I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage. ↗

— Noel Coward

#astrology #believe #blame #failures #i

It seems logical to suppose that history's pattern reflects innate differences among people themselves. Of course, we're taught that it's not polite to say so in public. We see in our daily lives that some of the conquered peoples continue to form an underclass, centuries after the conquests or slave imports took place. We're told that this too is to be attributed not to any biological shortcomings but to social disadvantages and limited opportunities. Nevertheless, we have to wonder. We keep seeing all those glaring, persistent differences in peoples' status. We're assured that the seemingly transparent biological explanation for the world's inequalities as of A.D. 1500 is wrong, but we're not told what the correct explanation is. Until we have some convincing, detailed, agreed-upon explanation for the broad pattern of history, most people will continue to suspect that the racist biological explanation is correct after all. That seems to me the strongest argument for writing this book. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#inspirational #education

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it. ↗

— Simon Cowell

#based #being #correctness #critical #everything

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here. ↗

— Simon Cowell

#always #am #celebrities #country #equally

I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence. ↗

— Simon Cowell

#back #bring #carrying #caught #country

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#faith #his #i #life #might

I favor the abolition of all Social Security, Medicare and estate taxes. In their place, we should create a simple income tax system that has no deductions or credits at all. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#create #credits #deductions #estate #favor

Showing up to games year after year, no matter what the product on the field gives you back, is a learned behavior - sort of like rats in a maze searching for cheese. The rat learns the maze, learns where the cheese is placed and eventually goes to it without thought, even when the cheese is taken away. The rat doesn't know anything else. ↗

— Joe Cowley

#anything #away #back #behavior #cheese

You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that he is dealing with specific things but that it also has significance universally. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#art #artist #dealing #every #feels