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Tom Allen Quotes

I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations.

Tom Allen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 16, 1945

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Support Die Farm Tax Will Land

There's a convention that books are mirrors of the real world, but our fact-obsessed age also wants fiction to be factually based and trustworthy.

Jim Crace

Age World Mirrors Real Trustworthy

Sometimes I have to shake my head at how much work it can take to track down a handful of food. Perfect example: I spent a whole day in the Amazon rainforest, in Ecuador, scouring the trunks of dead palm trees for grubs.

Andrew Zimmern

Work Food Day Trees Perfect Down

My very first role was when I was 2 1/2 years old; I was one of Nora's children in 'A Doll's House,' with my father playing Torvald.

John Lithgow

Father Children House Old First

From the beginnings of modern monetary theory, in David Hume's marvelous essays of 1752, 'Of Money and Of Interest,' conclusions about the effect of changes in money have seemed to depend critically on the way in which the change is effected.

Robert Lucas, Jr.

Change Money Way Changes Depend

I don't take that away from Conor, that he beat Chad Mendes on short notice. Chad took that fight knowing he had a chance to beat Conor, so that's Chad's fault he took that fight.

Max Holloway

Fight Chance Short Knowing Fault He

Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of patients who have the wrong leg removed or the wrong knee replaced generate the most headlines, as do tales of patients whose identities are mixed up entirely.

Jeffrey Kluger

Wrong Kind Special Horror Up Seem

No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they had not been confronted with civil war.

Stephen Kinzer

Opportunity War Done Say Will Been

Exacerbating the problem of mass incarceration is that, even after someone is released from prison, the stigma of a misdemeanor or felony conviction makes finding gainful employment difficult, if not impossible.

Stan Van Gundy

Impossible Prison Someone Problem

I don't mind sitting at home playing the guitar for a year as long as I'm making good films.

Tom Holland

Good Home Mind Guitar Year Long

It seems like there's a real world for new ideas in Philly.

Lucy Dacus

Ideas World New Real New Ideas Like

My partner and I had our first son in 1996, and the office became the baby's room. Our second son was born in 2001, and the office became the kids' room.

Judy Gold

Son Baby Partner Born First Office

We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he analyzed the data that demonstrated a way to prevent polio?

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Morning Data You New Anticipation