#ears

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education. ↗

— Julian Bond

#children #education #going #receiving #school

If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax is phased out in 2010 but comes back in full force in 2011. That is a ridiculous and untenable policy. ↗

— Kit Bond

#back #come #comes #current #current law

The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years. ↗

— Neal Boortz

#basic needs #dependent #government #increasingly #large

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many. ↗

— Julius Erving

#career #could #envy #family #family life

I made 22 million in 14 years... with taxes, and travel and everything else, it gets blown out the window... which is why I still need to work. ↗

— Boomer Esiason

#else #everything #gets #i #made

At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations. ↗

— Amar Bose

#body #bring #could #disciplines #exceeded

I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#house #i #long #long time #need

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left. ↗

— David Bowie

#again #be prepared #because #become #better

A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do work at home in an ugly room. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#chicago #day #every #every day #few

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years. ↗

— David Bowie

#about #absolute #absolutely #confident #copyright