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A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

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Alexis de Tocqueville
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Category: Government

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Now is the age of anxiety.
  • 2. Well Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have and he passed at a very young age.
  • 3. A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him 'At my age I don't even buy green bananas.'

2 Amazing

  • 1. I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.
  • 2. As far as the girls in my grade it was always kind of an on-and-off thing. When all this came up it was kind of hard. My guy friends and my family friends have been so amazing and supportive.
  • 3. I think having children is the most amazing thing.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
  • 2. At the time 1980 people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear resentment and anger.
  • 3. Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time anger at what we can't do fear or even disgust at growing old.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
  • 2. You will reciprocally promise love loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today before God you formulate.
  • 3. Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
  • 2. Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
  • 3. The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
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