"As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself."

-- Daniel Keys Moran

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“The twin sister to autonomy and freedom is responsibility and accountability. You cannot have one with out the other. If someone is given an area of responsibility, not only must they be set free to do it, they must also be held accountable for what they do. Accountability clarifies freedom. In the teams and companies where you see boundary confusion, power struggles, control, over-reaching of one's line of responsibility, you will also see lapses in accountability as well.”
“People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.”
“There is a vast difference between treating effects and adjusting the cause.”
“God is waiting to satisfy us, yet His goodness will not satisfy us if we are already full of other things.”
“I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.”
“If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.”
“People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love.”

Source : Rachel Kushner (2014). “The Flamethrowers: A Novel”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
“From virtue all happy states arise.”

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