"Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again."

-- Eliot Spitzer

#Parenting Quotes #Hazards Quotes #Incentives Quotes

“So you just went in and told him to give you two Cokes and he gave them to you?" "No, I didn't just go in and tell him to give me two Cokes. I asked for a Coke for me and a Coke for the skinny thug sitting on the library steps.”
“Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him.”
“I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.”
“Just as important I believe, is Black America can look back at the show and say, "Wow, I think I now understand why a lot of white people were appalled at the acquittal of O.J. Simpson."”
“Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.”
“I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dul as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.”
“And thou shalt in thy daughter see, This picture, once, resembled thee.”

Source : Thomas Parnell, Ambrose Philips (1779). “The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson”, p.365
“And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.”

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