"There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government."

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Source : William Spencer Vickrey (2004). “Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey”, Edward Elgar Pub

William Vickrey

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“There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.”
“The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.”
“If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.”
“I am stronger than my trials.”

Source : Dan Wells (2012). “Partials (Partials, Book 1)”, p.19, HarperCollins UK
“The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.”
“Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.”
“The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.”
“Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.”

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