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When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for mon

When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself. – Paul Ryan

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And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them. – Paul Ryan

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I dont want to get into the whos a hostage-taker discussion here, but what is the estate tax? Its a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that its really not a tax that soaks the rich, but its a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation. – Paul Ryan

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We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility. – Paul Ryan

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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. – Adam Smith

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things – not the great occasions – that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness. – Bob Hope

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. – Richard Bach

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