I wish all of them were better stewards of our money. All of them. People get elected to represent us and think it means that they get to rule and waste our money with impunity. And truth be told, way too many people act like our hired representatives are the government instead of the People. Stop treating these people like they are something more than people we've chosen to represent us and hold them accountable. While we have a shutdown act a bit more like you care about this stuff, it will go a long way to making things better. Plus if you fake it until you make it you might even find you do care.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
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