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For Government to earn my trust it’s operation must be transparent. I need to look away & know that everything is going as was stated under the integrity concept & distinction. I need to be able to find information quickly & as a whole know where the money is going & what projects it is supporting. Part of the integrity of government is to provide this all online. The rest of governmental integrity is staffing governments at all levels with people who subscribe to these notions of integrity. The excuses that there is just too much should be a guide to the right-sizing of government. If the government can’t be accountable because it is just too big then the right-size is to make it smaller. The idea of a politician who has integrity may seem like an oxymoron, but then We the People have the vote & we can reclaim our integrity.



The notion of integrity has intrigued us for a long, long time. It never stops being relevant—whether we hear about it in monarchies, politics, financial practices, scientific research, or ancient mythology. Thousands of books are written on the subject, millions of web searches take place. Integrity was ranked as the most looked-up word on the web at one point. The notion of integrity usually comes with a lot of associations—there’s something that the word already means or doesn’t mean to us, some reaction or point of view we have about it. Many people think of integrity as synonymous with morality—being ethical, a good person, an upstanding citizen, or doing the right thing. Each understanding has a certain validity and an important and central place in personal, professional, and societal life. Yet the potential power of each word (integrity, morality, ethics, goodness) can be lessened when meanings are collapsed and mushed together with other meanings. Integrity is actually a phenomenon in and of itself—one that goes beyond what we might mean by morality or ethics. It’s one that has more to do with authenticity—being true to ourselves—and it is the foundation for power and effectiveness.
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But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity: yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being, as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere. Nor does it matter how you gauge and try him. A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; — read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing. In this pleasing, contrite wood-life which God allows me, let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect, and, I cannot doubt, it will be found symmetrical, though I mean it not, and see it not. My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects. The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill into my web also. We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.
Quite a beautiful essay!








- To "say only what you mean" assumes that you always know what your mean and even "knowing what you mean" can ever be sufficiently defined.
- To "not take things personally" is usually a good idea ... but it is not always the case. I think people can do things to each other that are very certainly meant to be personal ... i don't want to just exclude those from my vocabulary.
- To always do your best is certainly an ideal ... but i have not been able to sustain that level of attention in my life. I wonder if anyone can.
- Being skeptical is certainly a useful way to be. But "Don't believe yourself or anybody else" ... give me a break!




If you’ve left some problems unsolved in your life – and a problem unsolved in your life is one that keeps coming up – you can handle it by expanding your purposes to include solving it. All of a sudden, what was a problem ceases to be a problem. It becomes a part of the solution. For the most part, simply acknowledging to the person that you made an agreement that you didn’t keep, or that you did something to them, would be enough to clean it up. Essentially, what you do is to expand your purposes – which are to make your life work – to include making their life work.

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