I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation to pay taxes that you do not owe. In fact, you should be seeking ways to legally minimise your taxes. ~John Mackey
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox. ~Anna Howard Shaw
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. ~Jane Austen
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. ~Jewish Proverb
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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you do not wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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The silent dog is the first to bite. ~German Proverb
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment. ~Jim Jeffords
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Let's do some comedy. I always like to add some comedy to my show. Those who've seen me before might know that. ~Bill Hicks
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There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth. ~Gary Taubes
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg. I don't usually admit this publicly, because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it, to use it as a way of luring audiences in. ~Terry Gilliam
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music. ~Nick Cave
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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. ~Gary Ross
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His rod reversed, and backward mutters of dissevering power. ~John Milton
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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