“If we give all of the people who filed incorrect tax returns the benefit of the doubt and assume that every single one of them simply made an honest mistake, then doesn't common sense tell us that maybe the tax code is just a little too complex?” PeopleIfsGivingLittlesMadeCommonMistakeDoubtHonestReturnTaxesBenefitsAssumingComplexesCommon SenseCodeBenefit Of The DoubtTax Returns Book:Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine Source: Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
“We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the US has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.” SufferingHalfRiskHonestConsequenceAssumingLuxuryBeing HonestGermanyAfghanistanPakistanSkatesHalf MeasuresSuffering The Consequences Author:Susan Rice
“One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest - comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly - I could only lend it.” IfsYearsFirstsHas BeensMadeCharacterUseRememberMoralAtheismHonestAssumingDetailsFollowingPositive AtheismHonestlyCodeRevising Author:Mark Twain
“Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept.” ThinkingProcessDecisionResponsibilityAcceptingEnvironmentHonestHealthyConsciousAssumingOneselfDevelopingBeing HonestMaturityInternalsMaking DecisionsRelationships With OthersHealthy RelationshipTrue To OneselfTrue GiftsAssuming Responsibility Author:Mary Pipher
“Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to write about a fact he has known for 20 minutes as though he has studied it for 20 years.” WayWritingYearsFactsSeemsKnownMinutesHonestJokesAssumingJournalismEthicalArticlesFrivolousFugitiveSolemnity Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“As for philosophy, it makes an architect high-minded and not self-assuming, but rather renders him courteous, just, and honest without avariciousness. This is very important, for no work can be rightly done without honesty and incorruptibility.” ImportantSelfDonePhilosophyHonestHonestyAssumingArchitectCourteous Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“If citizens wish to retain their liberty, they cannot assume that those who seek power over them are honest. Skepticism of government is one of the most important-and most forgotten-bulwarks of freedom.” IfsImportantGovernmentWishLibertyHonestCitizensAssumingForgottenSkepticism Author:James Bovard