“The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.”– John Maynard Keynes Related Quotes “How strange it is, to be walking away. Is it possible that I am really going to leave Ray—here? Is it possible that he won’t be coming home with me in another day or two, as we’d planned? Such a thought is too profound for me to grasp. It’s like fitting a large unwieldy object in a small space. My brain hurts, trying to contain it.”— Joyce Carol Oates “Do not compete with anyone.”— Lailah Gifty Akita “What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.”— H. P. Liddon