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  • Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts. -- Patrick McHenry
  • Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection. -- Italo Calvino
  • Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. -- William S. Burroughs
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  • For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem. -- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
  • That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • I'm still a marginal figure living from book to book, but, as long as I'm producing labour as a good Marxist prole, I guess I'm satisfied. -- William T. Vollmann
  • If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance. -- Martin Jacques
  • You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten. -- Atom Egoyan
  • The marginal people on the trading desks, there's no skill set. If they don't trade derivatives, I don't know what they can do. The next stop is driving a cab. -- James Chanos
  • I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them. -- Bill Keller
  • Indeed, when all parties campaign effectively the overall effect is to push up voting rates, as you see in tight marginal seats or close general elections. That must be good for democracy. -- Lucy Powell
  • I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes. -- David Ogilvy
  • In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly. -- Lucy Powell
  • Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics. -- Michael Eric Dyson
  • If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. -- Ezra Pound
  • I played the mini-tours for a lot of years, and man, you see some weird things out there. There are a lot of desperate people, strange personalities and marginal players, and with that you're going to see some cheating. -- Boo Weekley
  • Medical need is an infinitely expandable concept. There is always one more marginal procedure that can be done. There is no end to the medical and surgical treatments that a technologically sophisticated and advanced society can give to aging bodies. -- Richard Lamm
  • We spend billions on marginal and often unnecessary procedures on people who are in the final dying process, yet we leave millions of Americans out of the health insurance system, and America's kids have the worst dental health in the developed world. -- Richard Lamm
  • Jim Sheridan, the MP who wants to ban sketchwriters from the Commons for being rude about politicians, is a blithering idiot. Sorry, scrub that - clearly a very thoughtful person with whom I might conceivably disagree on some marginal issues. A blithering savant, perhaps. -- Simon Hoggart
  • Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax rates, when President Bush imposed those tax cuts, they actually generated economic growth. They expanded the economy. They expand tax revenues. -- Mike Pence
  • Barack Obama is not Harry Truman, who dropped the A-bomb on Japan to stop World War II. Barack Obama is not John F. Kennedy, who lowered marginal tax rates to get economic growth and job creation. Barack Obama and the far left, they are a completely different ball of wax. -- Monica Crowley
  • Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. - the principal factor in industrial production, and perceived natural capital as a marginal contributor. The exclusion of natural capital from balance sheets was an understandable omission. There was so much of it, it didn't seem worth counting. -- Paul Hawken
  • More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates? -- Gary Bauer
  • The Internet rewards scale; by trading higher up-front costs for lower marginal cost, market leaders can invest in better technology and service. As a result, there is nothing online that is both great in quality and small in scale. Amazon wasn't originally a better bookstore than the small shops we mourn, but it is now. -- John Katzman
  • I just don't want to live in the past. I'm really disappointed by so many people of my generation who - in order to promote their new work, they have to constantly lean on their past. I don't want to be that type of artist... I see a lot of people out here doing really marginal music. -- Billy Corgan
  • Because of this high status of the object in our culture, something has to be a thing. Live efforts are almost marginal. I think dance, for example, is just as much a thing, and I want for it to have the same status. I don't want it to be the thing that comes in the evening and is, like, the happy music. -- Tino Sehgal
  • The margin is very marginal. -- Bobby Robson
  • It [humor] inhabits the marginal. -- Penelope Gilliatt
  • The delusional is no longer marginal. -- Bill Moyers
  • Politics is about who wins and loses. The rest is of marginal interest. -- Sean Wilentz
  • I do think there is room at the very top for marginal tax changes. -- Richard L. Hanna
  • Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. -- Joanna Russ
  • Even marginal progress could be affected by investigations in Little Rock and in Washington. -- Gwen Ifill
  • in New York there's such diversity that there's no one central identity; everyone is marginal. -- Vivian Gornick
  • to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal. -- Patricia J. Williams
  • Music that touches the transcendental aspect of a human being is reserved for a marginal audience -- John McLaughlin
  • Gay culture is far from 'marginal,' being rather 'intersectional,' the conduits between unlike beings. -- Judy Grahn
  • The problem is yes, everything works. Doing everything at once makes you marginal at everything... at best. -- Dan John
  • It's true that women appear very little in [Albert Camus] works. They have a very marginal place. -- Catherine Camus
  • I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal. -- John Bolton
  • I really don't know one plane from the other. To me they are just marginal costs with wings. -- Alfred Kahn
  • Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage. -- Daniel Gilbert
  • Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of "just this once. -- Clayton M. Christensen
  • The Indians are a marginal people in Guatemala just like I am a marginal person in the first world. -- Luis Gonzalez
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  • Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed. -- Aaron Sanchez
  • There is nothing so marginal as a party that has been in power for 18 years and slides into opposition. You influence nothing. -- Sebastian Coe
  • Capricornia is one of the most marginal seats in the country. So naturally the electoral battle is fought in the marginal seats. -- George Brandis
  • The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity. -- Richard Koch
  • Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort. -- Anne Rice
  • In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to? -- Mary Ruefle
  • One way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential. -- Raymond Geuss
  • Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers. -- James Cook
  • There is a long and interesting tradition of really marginal left-field music that becomes commercially successful. And I will, for a brief minute, fit into that tradition. -- Moby
  • I can't imagine an argument that says that raising marginal tax rates on high income people, many of whom are business owners, is a recipe for economic growth. -- Glenn Hubbard
  • A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal - hence, the necessary secrecy. -- Hakim Bey
  • In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party. -- Noam Chomsky
  • A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses-Hispanically owned or otherwise-pay taxes at the highest marginal rate. -- George W. Bush
  • I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream. -- Mark Strand
  • The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes. -- Chris Alexander
  • There is only a "marginal difference" separating those who are truly successful and those who merely do well.Whether you believe you can do something or not, you are right! -- Henry Ford
  • I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station. -- Al McGuire
  • No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did. -- David Halberstam
  • I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become. -- Don DeLillo
  • Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being -- H. G. Wells
  • An interactive debugger is an outstanding example of what is not needed - it encourages trial-and-error hacking rather than systematic design, and also hides marginal people barely qualified for precision programming. -- Harlan Mills
  • Where life is fully and consciously lived in our own neighborhood, we are cushioned a little from the impact of great far-off events which should be of only marginal concern to us. -- Hubert Butler
  • People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also will experience negative consequences, as with any form of gluttony. -- Ray Dalio
  • The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities. -- Judith Butler
  • The big lie out there, the big lie that the Republicans propagate day after day, is that cutting marginal rates for those at the top is going to create jobs. It's simply not true. -- Eliot Spitzer
  • I go out of my way to stay off commuter planes. I have skipped conferences because I would not fly on marginal airlines (and because of many mishaps, I also avoided flying on ValuJet). -- Mary Schiavo
  • It has been calculated that one marginal win is worth $7 million and we can increase that by five percent each year to figure out the value the Nationals can expect to receive from Scherzer. -- Max Scherzer
  • If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are creating a certain, diluted reality. In an organization that functions properly, discipline should be a marginal issue. -- Itay Talgam
  • The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss of biodiversity and topsoil, accelerates, causing development efforts to falter. -- Wangari Maathai
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