#ems

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work. ↗

— Nicholas Johnson

#decades #effort #families #help #help people

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#care #escape #fills #general #humanity

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#dimly #dreams #man #realities #seems

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#capital #contrived #enjoy #good #happiness

First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that. ↗

— Julius Rosenberg

#different #discussed #economic #expert #first

Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by. ↗

— Eric Johnston

#assailed #ears #government #government officials #headlong

During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it. ↗

— Davy Jones

#failed #gems #i #launched #miserably

I was mad at Screen Gems, but I'm not mad at them anymore. ↗

— Davy Jones

#gems #i #mad #screen #them

The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point? ↗

— Davy Jones

#french #like #monkees #only #people

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#anything #book #close #dire #fantasy