"Bingo!! Once again, privatization--*total* privatization--is the best solution. Get government, and government-sanctioned business collectives, out of the health 'care' picture entirely and, just maybe, I can go back to typing the word 'care' (in relation to 'health') without the quotes. :-)"

“Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.”

Source : "Fat is a prejudice issue" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2012.

“Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.”

Source : "International Women's Day: In defence of feminist dissent". www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2014.

“Every man feels that perception gives him an invincible belief of the existence of that which he perceives; and that this belief is not the effect of reasoning, but the immediate consequence of perception. When philosophers have wearied themselves and their readers with their speculations upon this subject, they can neither strengthen this belief, nor weaken it; nor can they shew how it is produced. It puts the philosopher and the peasant upon a level; and neither of them can give any other reason for believing his senses, than that he finds it impossible for him to do otherwise.”

Source : Thomas Reid (1846). “The Works of Thomas Reid, D. D.: Now Fully Collected, with Selections from His Unpublished Letters”, p.309

“I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think were pretty much alike!”

Source : "Liane Moriarty: 'We're all capable of things that are breathtakingly cruel'". Interview with Bethanne Patrick, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2014.

“Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.”

Source : "Gold is again proving its value in a risky world" by George Trefgarne, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 23, 2002.

“All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do.”

“The evidence is in, and you are the verdict.”

“I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all.”