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" Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive. "

Paul Ryan

Government

Inequality

Tax

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" Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. "

" Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. "

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" Until there are tangible metrics for quantifying the real value of a token's utility, the gap between value and valuation will continue to defy conventional wisdom and conventional valuation methods. "

" They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense. "

" Wisdom outweighs any wealth. "

" Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? "

" Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. "

" Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh. "

" We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility. "

" Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. "

" I'm going to speak my mind. I'm going to defend conservatism as I understand it. I'm going to defend our ideas as the Republican Party. "

" Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. "

" Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world. "

" It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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" Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups. "

" Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. "

" If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. "

" Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster. "

" War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. "

" Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. "

" The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right. "

" Plodding wins the race. "

" While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline. "

" The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it. "

" Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. "

" Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years? "

" We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. "