The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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  1. Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. - E.e. Cummings

  2. The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led. - Lisa Wingate

  3. It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about. - Shauna Niequist

  4. Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them. - Mhairi McFarlane

  5. I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up! - Mark Twain

More Quotes By Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  1. Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.

  2. The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.

  3. The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

  4. In the era of security clearances, to be an Irish Catholic became prima facie evidence of loyalty. Harvard men were to be checked; Fordham men would do the checking.

  5. To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

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