"Nobody likes taxes. I would prefer that none of us had to pay taxes, including myself."
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"I am willing to work with anybody who wants to have a serious conversation about our fiscal future. We're not going to do this under the threat of blowing up the entire economy. I will not negotiate over Congress' responsibility to pay the bills that have already been racked up. I don't know how I can be more clear about this."
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"Either we have the government forcing us and telling us what we have to do, where we have to do it and how much we have to pay for it or we put ourselves in charge - we as consumers, as patients."
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"I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time."
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"In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions. In every major economic downturn in US history the villains have been the heroes during the preceding boom."
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"I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine."
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"It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs."
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"The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best."
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"I really can't stand any more to pay for a burst of animation when someone comes in for drinks with a depressed and low-keyed next day, in which I have to go around on my hands and knees."
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"Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor; Part with it as with money, sparing; pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell."
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"Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact."
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"Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs."
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"Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but words."
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"The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it."
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"I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise."
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"I'm a working mother... You try to pay the bills, you try to keep your life going and there's pressure."
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"So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff."
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"It is always and everywhere the province of the central bank to monetize any spending, the government's or the private sector's, by printing enough money to pay for it in depreciated dollars."
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"The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions."
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"But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes."
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