"There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States."

-- Howard Zinn

#Government Quotes #People Quotes #Profound Quotes

“I worked at a Sport Chek in Vancouver, only so I could get the discount off snowboard gear. But I hated the job so much, I quit before I got my discount.”
“It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.”
“I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, one as hated as the other.”
“The modern version of Buridan's ***** [a figurative description of a man of indecision] has a Ph.D., but no time to grow up as he is undecided between making a Leonardo da Vinci in the test tube or planting a Coca Cola sign on Mars.”
“Your words and thoughts have physical power.”
“America must deal once and for all with an utterly irrational health care financing system that allows private interests to make billions in profits from the pain and suffering of their fellow citizens. America is the only country in the industrialized world that does not provide tax-supported universal health care coverage in some form.”

Source : Suzanne Gordon, Claire M. Fagin (2007). “Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines”, p.308, Cornell University Press
“The night crackled ... Everything had turned to static electricity in the heat. I combed my hair to watch the sparks fly from the ends.”
“I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.”

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