"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward."

Society, Pursuit, Reward, Taxes

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"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward."

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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

T. F. Hodge, American Motivational Speaker

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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"Society has a herd psychology, so until we have more good shepherds we are lost."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Why have your followers all drawn their swords, may I ask?" said Aslan."May it please Your High Majesty," said the second Mouse, whose name was Peepiceek, "we are all waiting to cut off our own tails if our Chief must go without his. We will not bear the shame of wearing an honor which is denied to the High Mouse.""Ah!" roared Aslan. "You have conquered me. You have great hearts. Not for the sake of your dignity, Reepicheep, but for the love that is between you and your people, and still more for the kindness your people showed me long ago when you ate away the cords that bound me on the Stone Table (and it was then, though you have long forgotten it, that you began to be Talking Mice), you shall have your tail again."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The morals of societies are defined by how they treat a strange woman."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"If God fairness, impartiality, equity, are his essence, that should become dominant in any society."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"I realize that they giggle and I actually laugh, that they show their cleavage and I have none to show, but just so you know, I am also a girl. I'm one of the three wise MEN. And it's gay to think that James Bond is hot."

John Green, American Author

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"The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"We are living in glorious days where each readers' voice can be heard."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"If we in Nigeria and Africa generally are to experience a true national transformation, we must purposefully begin a campaign for national reorientation."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others."

Success

"The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods."

War

"For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still."

God

"It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still."

Progress

"I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past."

Conservative

"The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy."

Power

"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones."

Creativity

"There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out."

Being

"I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal."

Government

"The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion."

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