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“Adnaw, I want to show the Americans that we are not stupid. Arrange for a physical examination to ensure they don’t have a tracking device under their skin.”
― Triple Deception
― Triple Deception
“On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.”
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“And while it sounds bad to hear that Americans underpay their taxes by nearly one-fifth, the tax economist Joel Slemrod estimates that the U.S. is easily within the upper tier of worldwide compliance rates.”
― Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
― Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
“Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on the screen, as Johnny Weissmuller arced through a canopy of trees boldly screaming his signature jungle call.”
― Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
― Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
“The reasons on which Montesquieu grounds his maxim are a further demonstration of his meaning. “When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body,” says he, “there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws to execute them in a tyrannical manner.”
― The Federalist Papers
― The Federalist Papers
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