tariffs and quotas

If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. ~Anton Chekov



It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. ~J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1999, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore



Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. ~C.C. Colton



The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself. ~Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, 1953



Loving is never a waste of time. ~Astrid Alauda



We all possess the thunder of pure fury and the calm breeze of tranquility. If it wasn't for tomorrow, how much would we get done today? Whatever your purpose... embrace it completely. Get lost in the clouds every now and then so you never lose sight of God's wonder. ~Paul Vitale



Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire



What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue. ~Thomas Paine



A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye. ~Anthelme Brillat-Savarin A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline. ~Herbert B. Prochnow



Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself. ~Georg Groddeck, The Book of the It, 1950



I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see. ~Duane Michals, Real Dreams



The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. ~Antisthenes



Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. ~Don Marquis



As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host. ~Charles V. Chapin



You must weed your mind as you would weed your garden. ~Astrid Alauda



'Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon,



Every vice has its excuse ready. ~Publilius Syrus



Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



A friend is a brother who was once a bother. ~Author Unknown



Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. ~Samuel Johnson, "Recalling the Advice of a College Tutor," Boswell, Life of Johnson, 1791