When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

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Plato ( PLAY-toh; Ancient Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn; c. 428–347 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher of Classical Athens who is most commonly considered the foundational thinker of the Western philosophical tradition. An innovator of the literary dialogue and dialectic forms, Plato influenced all the major areas of theoretical philosophy and...

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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.

The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

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

—John Maynard Keynes

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

—H. L. Mencken

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

—Albert Einstein

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

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