"Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions. Nothing can more affect national prosperity than a constant and systematic attention to extinguish the present debt and to avoid as much as possibly the incurring of any new debt."

-- Alexander Hamilton

#Government Quotes #Principles Quotes #Attention Quotes

“Though strength be wanting, the will to action Merits praise.”
“The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge. We may even judge the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.”
“Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway”
“The fruit of keeping covenants is the companionship of the Holy Ghost and an increase in the power to love.”
“Curiosity is a great antidote to fear.”

Source : "Meredith Monk's Voice". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. February 16, 2012.
“After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood.”

Source : Charles Perrault (2015). “The sleeping beauty in the woods”, p.13, "Издательство ""Проспект"""
“I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.”
“A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.”

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