Even though there is an element of fairness in that proposal, we wouldn't recommend it. It sets a dangerous precedent. We'd just prefer that other states stop imposing their taxes on Washington athletes.


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This story is about people,secrets and time.About people who, not unlike parcels,hide secrets,who co...
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If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.
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I was the life and she was the soul of every party.
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People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not."

"Shouldn'...
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Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were mer...
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Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to u...
CECELIA AHERN
Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given....
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Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem
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Time cant be given. But it can be shared.
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He was comparing you to the butterflies that you both adore and cherish, and he said you were specia...
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If people believe that a weapon of mass destruction can be entered into this country easier as a res...
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When you aggregate those layers, it is very difficult for someone to introduce something that causes...
JAY AHERN
It's funny because when you're a child, you believe you can be anything you want to be, go wherever ...
CECELIA AHERN
Life is funny isn’t it? Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out,
just when you fi...
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life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think ...
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I don't know if Marcus knows how important that moment was to me. How much he actually saved me from...
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I’d live anywhere, - in one room, in the castle ruin right now – if it meant we could all just b...
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And that is how the problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, al...
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This story is one for which some people will have to suspend their belief. If it wasn't me and this ...
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Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a ...
CECELIA AHERN
Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we’re looking for things it takes it upon itse...
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I lost my dad. He lost his tomorrows and I lost all the tomorrows with him. You could say that now, ...
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I suppose it’s easier to see the way out of anything when you’ve found your way out of that maze...
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Most people go in bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow, the books sit there, al...
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And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root...
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I generally don’t become overexcited about things anyway, I’m just not one of those people. I’...
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That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You�...
CECELIA AHERN
Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to ...
CECELIA AHERN
I used to think that it was better to have too much than too little, but now I think if the too much...
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I wonder if my watching him from the armchair is what it's like to be God, if there is a God. He sit...
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They say a story loses something with each telling.
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As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life awa...
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For the yesterdays and todays, and the tomorrows I can hardly wait for - Thank you.
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Nothing is never nothing. It's always something.
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Hope like that, as I thought before, doesn’t make you a weak person. It’s hopelessness that make...
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