"We are having a public health response to this epidemic of prescription opioids. We are looking at treatment options, there are drugs being made available for treatments, and we aren't just throwing people in prison. So this is a very different response than the traditional criminal justice response that we have had to past drug epidemics."

-- Perri Peltz

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“The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.”

Source : "'Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan': Talking to a Billionaire About Class War". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. June 16, 2015.
“A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.”
“I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a schoolgirl's room--a complete mess--so the great thing is to make out a way of seeing it all as ordered, as right, as inferred and following.”
“When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.”

Source : Jimmy Breslin (1986). “Table money”
“Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.”
“We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.”

Source : Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.8, W. W. Norton & Company
“Waiting to be happy limits our brain's potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward.”
“When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance of giving and receiving, and getting and giving again.”

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