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I am neither a free-trade man, willing to collect all the money we have to raise by direct tax upon the people, nor am I willing to lay a tax simply for protection when the Government does not need the money. ↗

— Joseph E. Brown

#collect #direct #does #free-trade #government

This whole generation of parents - I'm guilty of it too - does too much for their kids. ↗

— Julie Brown

#generation #guilty #i #kids #much

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#inspirational #writing #age

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

#common #common sense #freedom #liberties #normal

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors. ↗

— Olympia Brown

#colors #future #general #good #happiness

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money. ↗

— Joe E. Lewis

#long #matter #money #poor #rich

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate. ↗

— Olympia Brown

#circumstances #constitute #decree #fate #fortuitous

The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental. ↗

— Montserrat Caballe

#give #give me #impossible #me #moment

The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all. ↗

— Olympia Brown

#connected #dependent #each #explained #few

A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again. ↗

— Pam Brown

#better #cat #conscience #down #get