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"Here`s what the rest of the world does that we don`t do. They take the tax off of their exports and place a tax on their imports. We do the opposite. We tax our exports and don`t tax our imports."
"You got to remember, S corporations pay one layer of tax, corporations pay two layers of tax. So we basically see equivalent, but here`s the point. The rest of the world, they tax their businesses at an average rate in the industrialized world of 23 percent. Our corporate is 35. Our top S corporate, small business rate is 44.6 effectively. This is killing us."
"Take a moment to imagine a world led by China or Russia. So we must lead."
"The world is split between those who do not sleep because they are hungry and those who do not sleep because they are afraid of those who are hungry."
"I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing."
"Either you make a mark on the world, or the world will make a mark on you."
"Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong."
"There is no such thing as a strange world, only a new world."
"I am learning the Language of World and everything in the world is beginning to make sense to me"
"It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge."
"They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to have a degree. And thus the world was deprived of some excellent gardeners, bakers, antique dealers, sculptors, and writers."
"The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles."
"That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything."
"Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it."
"Fashion is merely a saying: I belong to your world. I'm wearing the same uniform as your army, so don't shoot."
"Love means sharing the world with someone else."
"I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world."
"Everything moves, and everything moves to a rhythm. And everything that moves to a rhythm creates a sound. At this moment, the same thing is happening here and everywhere else in the world."
"Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world."
"It has been said that there is no such thing as coincidence in this world."
