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The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary of commerce's office, to bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn ... seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime. Surely civilization would collapse without such essential services.

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In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain.

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The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read "one year's experience-twenty times.

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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

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I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy.

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Today, I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year.

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Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.

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Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

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The Democrats are using the human trafficking bill's language that's been there for 40 years, regarding the use of federal funds for abortion.

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If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office.

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I always emphasize that it is much safer and better to keep one's own religious faith. The other major religions are thousands of years old and have long traditions.

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I didn't want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally - Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least, I didn't want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it's OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.

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Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

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I wouldn't be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago

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Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.

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If you're really concerned about deficits, you cannot take seriously a budget that would give $30 billion a year worth of tax cuts to not just the top 1 percent but the top 0.1 percent.

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The years in your life are less important than the life in your years.

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Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

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99.9% of plumbers make less than a quarter million dollars a year, and I'm going to give Joe a break whether he wants it or not.

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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?

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