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This is a tax that puts Maine businesses at a serious competitive disadvantage. We've simply got to get rid of this tax.


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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senil...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS For time is the longest distance between two places.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the que...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of myster...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved ...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentra...
SERENA WILLIAMS Tennis just a game, family is forever.
SERENA WILLIAMS