#greater

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. ↗

— Mark Skousen

#centrally #civilized #civilized society #civilized world #complete

The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#difficulty #even #film #given #good

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#expect #glory #greater #hear #i

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

#depends #dispositions #experience #greater #happiness

After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper. ↗

— Gary Webb

#am #angeles #central #cities #convinced

Don't die a pauper, don't die a commoner and a weakling. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#be-different #book #books-reading #books-reading-bibliophily #bookstore

Bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya: For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#buddhism #compassion #greater-good #love #tolerance

Forget the past, think of future, remember God's goodness and His power and ability to take you to where you ought to be and establish you. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#be-different #books-reading #chiyson #greater-glory #higher-living

First of all, every new company today is being built in the face of massive economic headwinds, making the challenge far greater than it was in the relatively benign '90s. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#benign #built #challenge #company #economic

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#further #gain #get #greater #greater power