对较大收入征收较高比例的税收,等于对工作和节俭征收了一项税收;对人们因为工作更努力、储蓄更多而征收罚款。
To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.
You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality.
I want to run a good race, to run a good time, and to enjoy it.
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
"Writing is not a performance, it's a generosity."
The poet's pen is mightier than the warrior's sword.
I try to understand the place, its memory, its light, its materials, and then I try to find the right answer.