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The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of. ↗

— Harrison Ford

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For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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What a lovely thing a rose is!... Our highest assurance of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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I love eating in it, brushing my teeth and swallowing the toothpaste in it. I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space. ↗

— Laura Kightlinger

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I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles. ↗

— Luis Fortuno

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We can all be proud of our men and women in the military who are following their orders, carrying out their missions and sacrificing so much to give the Iraqi people a chance for a more peaceful and prosperous future. ↗

— Ron Kind

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Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals. ↗

— Alveda King

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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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