Once large numbers of baby boomers start retiring and begin to benefit from these tax breaks, they'll become not just more expensive, but also more difficult politically to modify.


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Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, an...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay wit...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, bu...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdictio...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk withou...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequa...
ELIZABETH WILSON
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other...
ELIZABETH GASKELL
I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, ha...
ELIZABETH JENNINGS
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity ...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!
ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH
He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentili...
ELIZABETH GASKELL
Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
ELIZABETH SMART
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK
He who angers you conquers you.
ELIZABETH KENNY
When I dream, I am ageless.
ELIZABETH COATSWORTH
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
ELIZABETH GASKELL
Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what...
ELIZABETH HELLER
We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of ti...
ELIZABETH DREW
Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but...
ELIZABETH GASKELL
Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Making a decision to have a child -- it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go w...
ELIZABETH STONE
Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
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ELIZABETH TAYLOR
I take, O cross, thy shadow
For my abiding-place:
I ask no other sunshine than
The sunshin...
ELIZABETH CLEPHANE
Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
ELIZABETH FULLER
The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
ELIZABETH JANEWAY
I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from co...
ELIZABETH JANEWAY
When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
ELIZABETH GASKELL
Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long a...
ELIZABETH I
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
ELIZABETH BOWEN