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Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

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But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

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The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I'm wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a diversified bet of uncorrelated bets. ↗

— Ray Dalio

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Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course. ↗

— Bobby Flay

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One thing you don't want to do as a host is be running around all evening. Do as much as you can ahead of time, so all you have to do is grill the main ingredients. ↗

— Bobby Flay

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I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period. ↗

— Bobby Flay

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The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

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Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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