"It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field."

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Source : "Joe Hockey says 'we can't promise equality' as he dismisses budget critics" by Lenore Taylor, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2014.

Joe Hockey

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“The duties which a police officer owes to the state are of a most exacting nature. No one is compelled to choose the profession ofa police officer, but having chosen it, everyone is obliged to live up to the standard of its requirements. To join in that high enterprise means the surrender of much individual freedom.”
“Death is perfectly safe. (55)”
“You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you donâ€™t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you donâ€™t know who your friends are, you donâ€™t know what you owe anybody, you donâ€™t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.”
“I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to.”
“The street finds its own uses for things.”
“When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories.”
“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.”
“Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.”

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