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The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life. ↗

— Barney Frank

#american life #clinton #code #economic #increase

Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#back #behold #bits #capital #certain

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

#happiness #i #make #marriage #marriage work

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#controversies #fair #forged #history #involving

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#does #family #indeed #large #large family

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#find #happiness #man #marriage #most

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#dust #injuries #marble #write

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

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The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France! ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#antoinette #arrival #book #books #childhood

I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#enough #gods #grateful #i #ian