Author: Henry David Thoreau (---.spacegate.com.ua)
Date: 01-07-06 15:24
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All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a
desk.
Ronald Reagan
LXVII
Ah! wherefore with infection should he live,
And with his presence grace impiety,
That sin by him advantage should achieve,
And lace itself with his society?
Why should false painting imitate his cheek,
And steel dead seeming of his living hue?
Why should poor beauty indirectly seek
Roses of shadow, since his rose is true?
Why should he live, now Nature bankrupt is,
Beggar'd of blood to blush through lively veins?
For she hath no exchequer now but his,
And proud of many, lives upon his gains.
O! him she stores, to show what wealth she had
In days long since, before these last so bad.
--William Shakespeare
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet
beautiful.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short
phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it
stops moving, subsidise it.
Ronald Reagan
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