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Jai Ganesh

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Collected and Collecting Quotes

Collected and Collecting Quotes

1. When I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it. - Meryl Streep

2. As more and more money is coming into the formal economy, one can look at more attractive tax rates and lower tax slabs. Even if half the people who were in the informal sector move in to the formal economy and more taxes get collected, more money can be spent on the welfare. - Piyush Goyal

3. In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting. - Lord Kelvin

4. Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. - Calvin Coolidge

5. It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. - Ayn Rand

6. Collecting is my passion. - Ursula Andress

7. One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites. - Hillary Clinton

8. I actually like snakes! When I was young, I was a boy scout nature camp counselor, and one of our projects was collecting snakes and creating an environment for them, so I'm quite familiar with snakes and think they're fantastic creatures. - Harrison Ford.

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