"Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money."

-- Jane Jacobs

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“Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.”
“What the artist wishes to do â€” as far as you are concerned â€” is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.”
“It's not like I let people do things for me, so I guess you can call me a control freak, or you can call me passionate.”

Source : "A Revealing Sit-down With Courteney Cox". Interview with Ann Oldenburg, usatoday30.usatoday.com. October 09, 2003.
“Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up.”
“What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!”
“Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.”
“What I know is, if you do work that you love, and work that fulfills you, the rest will come. I truly believe the reason I've been so financially successful is because my focus has never been on the money.”
“Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations. "If I can but grasp it, if I can but cognise it", so he thinks, "I can make it my servant.”

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