The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.
When I became finance minister in 1991, I discovered that the wealth tax rates income - there was taxation on wealth. It was so atrocious and so high that actually nobody could accumulate money in an honest way. I removed that tax, and the result was that Indian companies for the first time acquired an incentive to grow big, to grow rich.
Besides the drugs and counterculture, I started talking about myself, which is the first thing you do when you are a writer.
I knew about some experience on the operational part of the CIA with Latin American services and so forth having to do with torture. But this was the first time that the CIA was openly advocating for permission to be able to torture. And that seemed to me so abhorrent that I wanted to disassociate myself from the CIA for the first time since 1963, because I didn't want to be associated in any way, however remotely, with an agency engaged in torture.
Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.
The Freemen have 987 levels of membership, the first three of which are achieved merely by filling out an application. The 8th level is granted upon full acceptance into the local lodge, the 13th following Initiation, the 21st at the end of the Initiate's second week, and the 89th the first time he brings snacks.
If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.
When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.
In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.
First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.
First understand infinity then you will understand God and how evolution is intelligent design.
Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.
No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.
For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.
Compose first, worry later.
I was 11 when I first said I wanted to become an actress, and everyone looked at me as if I had said I wanted to go to the moon.
Reminds me of the red dress you wore the first time I had you. That was it for me, you know. You devastated me. There was no coming back from that.
My motto has always been: Only first class business and that in a first class way
Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.
If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.