#red

Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired. ↗

— John Shadegg

#benefits #elderly #first #germany #i

If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible. ↗

— John Shadegg

#dependence #economic #efficiently #energy #energy sources

The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes. ↗

— John Shadegg

#collecting #currently #each #individual #number

Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#along #asia #began #camera #details

I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#confess #dictatorial #doing #editing #his

Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#begin #came #department #i #i came

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#returns #traveler #undiscovered #whose

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#faith #flattered #great #great men #hath

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#desired #hurts #lover #pinch #stroke

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. ↗