#ax

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#almost #anonymity #because #continued #dreaded

By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job. ↗

— Robert Quine

#bookstore #brooklyn #drank #got #i

I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands. ↗

— Robert Quine

#answered #auditioning #band #bands #days

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends. ↗

— Jean Racine

#among #common #friends #maxim #old

We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it. ↗

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#after #any #badly #did #embassy

Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and ours is giving tax breaks. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #marriage #taxes #funny

Well, you know, we've got a lot of stimulus in the economy already from the tax cut, from the lowered interest rates, and also from the refinancing of mortgages. ↗

— Franklin Raines

#also #cut #economy #got #interest

I just stay focused, and I always think about gymnastics. I am just doing what I always do... working really hard and pushing myself to the maximum and keeping myself motivated. ↗

— Aly Raisman

#always #am #doing #focused #gymnastics

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#disease #house #pays #soul #tax

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws. ↗

— Mariano Rajoy

#confidence #create #cut #deficit #economic