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Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine. During an emergency, like an earthquake or a hurricane, taxes pay for rescue workers, shelters, and services. For people whose lives are devastated by other kinds of disaster, like the disaster of poverty, taxes pay, even, for food. ↗

— Jill Lepore

#business #common-defense #disasters #domestic-tranquility #emergencies

Computer business are like fruit market on a Saturday night. If you don't sell it at five o'clock, the price is down tomorrow because the fruit's no good the next day. You'd better sell it now. ↗

— Brian Bagnall

#computer #business

Business is War by other means. ↗

— Kambiz Mostofizadeh

#mikazuki-publishing-house #business

About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return. ↗

— Robert Graves

#gentleman #business

Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#business

You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn’t of much importance. Most of your orders will be unpleasant, but that’s not your business.They should’ve trained you for this, and not for flower-strewn streets. They should have built your soul with truth, not led along with lies. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#military #war #business

Humans are so busy asking about who or what had built the pyramids. For me, whoever had built pyramids, the message is so clear and simple, "we are higher than human race in the food chain. ↗

— Toba Beta

#pyramid-builder #business

Nowdays, Rosie the Rivetere was a former soccer mom who had just opened her own catering business when Last Night came down and her husband and kids were eaten by a parking attendant at the local megamall’s discount- appliance emporium. ↗

— Colson Whitehead

#rosie-the-rivetere #zombie #zone-one-a-novel #business

The law of centrifugal force seems to be as true for the human condition as it is for the Newtonian mechanics. The faster our lives spin, the more things tend to fly apart. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#force #hectic #overwhelmed #business

It is not God who is too busy to hear us, it is we who are too busy to hear God. ↗

— Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#god #hear #business