2,939 Quotes About Cutting

  • Author Walter Bagehot
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    A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.

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  • Author Walter Benjamin
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    While big corporations make huge, tax-free profits, taxes for the everyday working person skyrocket. While politicians take free trips around the world, those same politicians cut back food stamps for the poor. While politicians increase their salaries, millions of people are being laid off. I do not understand a government so willing to spend millions of dollars on arms, to explore outer space, even the planet Jupiter, and at the same time close down day care centers and fire stations.

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  • Author Walter Benjamin
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    The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.

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  • Author Warren Buffett
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    If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

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  • Author Warren Buffett
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    Asking for financial advice from a financial planner is like asking a barber if you need a hair cut.

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  • Author Wendell Berry
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    If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.

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  • Author Wendell Berry
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    But the sower going forth to sow sets foot into time to come, the seeds falling on his own place. He has prepared a way for his life to come to him, if it will. Like a tree, he has given roots to the earth, and stands free.

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  • Author Wendell Berry
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    If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

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