"One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle."

-- Byron Dorgan

#Blow Quotes #Keys Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.'”
“Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcÃ©e. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.”

Source : "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian". Book by Marina Lewycka, March 31, 2005.
“It isn't the changes that do you in, it's the transitions.”
“The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.”
“There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a painting to have rhythm.”
“You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.”

Source : Brad Warner (2009). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.71, New World Library
“The personal is political, but only to a point.”

Source : "Sarah Palin and the Double Standard" by Susan Estrich, www.foxnews.com. September 3, 2008.
“The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.”

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