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“President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's.”

Should Wells Able President Pay Support Mom Higher Taxes Fortune Rate Pops Likes Corporations President Obama Buffett Warren Buffet

Author:Rob Portman

“The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth.”

Wells Our Lives Youth Depends Periods Fortune Employing

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.”

Wells May Mean Persons Desire Found Limits Absolutes Independence Fortune Abundance Contracts

Author:William Shenstone

“Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism.”

Ifs Wells Remember Form Business Worst Fortune Selfish Ruins Reform Inevitable Triumph Materialism Swollen

Book:The Works of Theodore Roosevelt

Source: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt

“In boxing, where most of the guys are from lower-class backgrounds and have darker skin than most of the fans, one might fear that the athletes are being exploited. But that narrative doesn't hold up very well in the world of MMA, where 99 percent of fighters are amateurs who will never earn a dime. They aren't seeking fame and fortune. For the most part, these guys are fighting because they want to and because it gives them an opportunity to strive for something big in their lives. It gives them a chance to become their best selves.”

“You see, astrology is like fortune-telling. If you can't get it right, you say, "Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in the background, that would alter your prognostication--because, of course, astrology is rubbish.”

Ifs Wells Courses Fortune Backgrounds Peculiar Astrology Rubbish Venus Fortune Telling Prognostication

Author:Quentin Crisp