"Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us."

-- Eric Alterman

“Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.”

Source : "Cardinals, bishops and doctors must not deny us our last rights" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.
“A balanced diet may be the best medicine. I was eating too much good eats. But people consider that part of your job, you know? Eat. And I do!”
“We must work tirelessly to make sure that every boy and girl in America who is up for adoption has a family waiting to reach him or her...This is a season of miracles, and perhaps there is no greater miracle than finding a loving home for a child who needs one.”
“Arrogance can be deadly.”
“How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? We may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton; more than this, we many even try to predict the mechanisms or "dynamisms" of the human psyche as well. But man is more than psyche.”
“Put on the company hat. (Be willing to accept actions that may have a negative impact upon a particular component but are in the best interests of the company as a whole.)”
“Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.”
“These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.”

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