"I really do believe most people understand raising tax rates is bad for the economy, it costs jobs. It actually in the long term undermines revenue."
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"The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it; the beech shrieks; the elm sends forth a long, deep groan; the ash pours out moans of thrilling anguish."
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"A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it."
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"When you've always worked hard in the theatre, you find that, when you stop playing, at the end of a run, the evenings seem very long indeed. You have to find something to keep yourself occupied with because you're so used to gearing yourself up to that eight o'clock curtain, but to find any kind of real, absorbing alternative is impossible. Nobody is as interesting to spend an evening with as a really good part."
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"I have long-range plans, but you always have to wait for business to catch up with you. It's a matter of contracts and meetings catching up with your ideas of what you want to accomplish in life."
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"I did pass the bar in Pennsylvania. I can practice Amish law. But it's long expired, my bar license."
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"I only aim for fashion that's long dead."
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"As long as you live, learn how to live."
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"Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's."
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"An unpopular rule is never long maintained."
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"It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business."
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"There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of it; and there is not any minute of our lives wherein we may not reasonably expect it. Nay, it is but a momen'ts work, the parting of soul and body. What a shame is it then to stand in fear of anything so long that is over so soon!"
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"Only a great man, believe me, and one whose excellence rises far above human failings, will not allow anything to be stolen from his own span of time, and his life is very long precisely because he has devoted to himself entirely any time that became available. None of it lay uncultivated and idle, none was under another man's control, for guarding it most jealously, he found nothing worth exchanging for his own precious time."
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"A hated government does not long survive."
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"No one can wear a mask for very long."
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"The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning."
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"Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself."
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"Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration."
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"The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual."
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"It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one."
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