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«The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing»

Author: Jean Baptiste Colbert (Economist, Minister) | About: Taxation | Keywords: amount, Art of, feathers, goose, goosed, hissed, hisses, hissing, largest, obtain, plucking, plucks, smallest, taxation, the art, the smallest

«The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.»

Author: Mark van Doren (Educator, Writer) | About: Art, Discovery, Teachers and teaching | Keywords: Art of, assisted, assisting, assists, discovery, teaching, the art

«The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.»

Author: Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus | Keywords: Art of, healing, open-minded, Open Mind, physician, the art

«The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.»

Author: Tony Blair (Prime Minister) | About: Art, Leadership | Keywords: Art of, easy, I Say No, leadership, saying, the art, yes

«The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.»

Author: Epicurus | Keywords: Art of, Art of Living, Best Art, dying, the art

«The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously»

Author: Elbert Hubbard | Keywords: Art of, business, hard, seriously, taking, the art, winning, winnings, working

«The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.»

Author: Leonardo da Vinci (Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor) | Keywords: actors, adornment, adornments, Art of, employed, employing, faces, human species, impulse, lose, members, not for, pent-up, pent, procreation, repulsive, species, therein, the art, The Faces, the Pent

«The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to be swayed by petty doubts.»

Author: Sun Tzu (Author, General) | About: Order | Keywords: Art of, blundered, blundering, blunders, doubts, giving, minor, minors, orders, pettier, petty, rectified, rectifies, rectify, swayed, swaying, sways, the art

«The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.»

Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: amuses, amusing, Art of, consists, cures, curing, disease, medicine, patient, patient of, the art

«The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.»

Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: Art of, benefit, government, nation, pay, pay for, possibly, that nation, the art, the Other, third, thirds, Third Way, two-thirds

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