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William Cobbett Quotes

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.

William Cobbett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: english
Birth: March 9, 1763 - June 18, 1835

Topics

Create Labor Class Take Give Who

All the world's combined knowledge is at our fingertips. But the same technology that makes this possible is robbing us of deeper insight.

John Landgraf

Technology Knowledge World Possible

I use a lot of citrus for seasoning. There's lemon or lime juice in just about everything, and that balances with salt very nicely. Things like toasted cumin seeds for the beans. The use of fresh herbs like oregano and cilantro.

Steve Ells

Seeds Salt Juice Everything Fresh

One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the disenfranchised opt out of modernity.

Steve Jurvetson

Positive Religion Feedback Out Gap

My mum used to wear the guys' Chesty Bonds tanks, and I used to end up wearing them after she'd finish with them. She's a painter, and they would be covered in paint splatters. She would wear them and wear them until they were super-soft, and then I'd get them. But I was just a kid, so they were like a dress on me.

Ruby Rose

Dress Me End She Kid Finish

For days on end, I avoid the Web, never logging in until about two or three, after I've written all morning. On a good week, I don't go online till after Wednesday, so four or five days might lapse without my checking e-mail.

Mary Karr

Good Morning End Week Go Three

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.

Luc Ferrari

Dumb Teachers First Satisfied Piano

Conducting is a strange thing to teach. There are very few great conducting teachers, and most great conductors don't teach. Look at Valery Gergiev - what he does is not teachable. A lot of it is on-the-job training, what works and what doesn't work.

Joshua Bell

Work Great Training Look Strange He

I want greatness.

Demi Moore

Greatness Want

Those Laurel Canyon days were great. I have a real fondness for that era, 'til about '68. Musically, it was wonderful, and there was this great innocence, an idyllic view of the world. After that, everything got a little... edgy.

Chris Hillman

Great World View Innocence Edgy

I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers.

Christine Lavin

Good Teachers Class Clown Get Who

There used to be very few women in prisons, but this changed with the introduction of the hudood laws.

Asma Jahangir

Women Introduction Used Laws Changed

There's a fascinating school of thought that some women are relationship addicts. You get really strung out on a guy who's not returning your enthusiasm and tell yourself you're going to fix him and make him better, and of course it's impossible.

Phoebe Snow

Women Relationship Yourself School