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“Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“The deeper satisfactions we crave come from strong bonds of mutual attachment to other people and larger causes outside ourselves. Then the mirrors become windows and doors into a wider world of loyalties. In that world a sense of well-being and happiness finds us rather than our frantically chasing it down. It is a place where a person has a chance to find the simple satisfaction that comes from doing a job the way it is supposed to be done.”
― Hugh Heclo

“Institutions exist for people. People do not exist for institutions. Since institutions exist for people, they are to be judged along a moral continuum of good and bad according to what is needed for human beings to flourish as human beings. In order to deserve the designation of good, institutions ought to be doing what is good for us as human beings.”
― Hugh Heclo, On Thinking Institutionally

“Doing good does not require the exclusion of the self, but rather it includes the self’s own flourishing and happiness within the flourishing of the wider community.”
― Scott Bader-Saye, Formed by Love

“If we recognize that not all of our aspirations will be possible, then we can redirect our mind from that “someday” when we will finally arrive (with the job, house, spouse, status, or bank account that we want) to the present day which can be received as an opening for grace. The present may not be all we want, but when it is grafted into a narrative of God’s ultimate redemption, we can begin to trust God’s provision and thus remain open to grace in the midst of the disappointing or even the tragic.”
― Scott Bader-Saye, Formed by Love