...information on copyright matters. Most of this is available online, www.patent.gov.uk/. 8 Business matters In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin in a letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy The aim of this chapter is to try to map the...

...Government in its turn. But I do want to show that risk is at the heart of the issue. 2. The nature of risk 'In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes' wrote Benjamin Franklin in l789. Great man though Franklin was, it is clear that there is indeed substantial...

...his Neighbor," by proverb compiler James Howell ( 1 594— 1 666). He also wrote, in a 1789 letter, "Our new Constitution is now established, and has...can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." Six decades earlier, in History of the Devil (1726), Daniel Defoe had made reference to "Things as...

...the American Revolutionary War 1789 - Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to a friend in which he said, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes" 1927 - The Holland Tunnel opened to the public, providing access between New York City and New Jersey...

...and taxes, can be more firmly believed. 1789: B. Franklin, Letter 13 Nov. in Writings (1907) X 69, In this world nothing can be said to be certain, excePt death and taxes. 418 1939: L. I Wilder, By the Shores of Silver Lake, xxv, Even thing's more or less a gamble ... Nothing...

...US statesman and father of the US constitution - Benjamin Franklin - famously commented in 1789 that 'in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes', an observation which also typifies the British traditional hatred of paying personal taxes. In twentieth-century...

...has been quoted as saying one of the most poignant and regrettably accurate maxims in all of history: "In this -world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." This may have been his attempt to lower tempers when Britain imposed taxes on their American colonies....

...heart and intention that matter most, not the stuff you buy. GKJ .} N DESIGN: TRENDY OR TIMI;I i-- In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes and — with apologies to Benjamin Franklin — the fact that kitchen styles will change. The cherry...

...learners a stronger sense of personal motivation through ownership of their learning? 4 Uncertainty In the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes. (Benjamin Franklin, 13 November 1789, letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy) A key feature of real-life decisions...

...nothing in human affairs and schemes is perfect, and perhaps that is the case of our opinions. And thus, our new Constitution is now established, and has an...can be said to be certain except death and taxes. I BEGIN TO FEEL MYSELF A FREE MAN Having now finish'd my term as president of Pennsylvania, and promising...