"Our system is a mess, but 90 percent of America has insurance coverage."

-- Kevin Drum

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“I'm an extremely determined person. I'm very serious about what I do.”
“Lucas was fifteen minutes late to class on Friday, and we had a pop quiz first thingâ€”which he missed. My first thought was how irresponsible it was to miss a quizâ€¦ and then I remembered that I missed the midterm. I couldn't exactly point any fingers.”
“When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Because this is so, there is a basic esthetic limitation on what can be done with cities: a city cannot be a work of art.”
“My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. Theyre both attorneys. So good marks, getting through university, there was a huge emphasis and pressure to do well and keep going.”
“Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return”
“And so I have to live. Because we live for more than just ourselves, Most of the time we live for others, keep putting one foot before the other, left and right, left and right, so that walking becomes a habit, just like breathing. Ina n out, left and right.”
“Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.”
“[I]nstead of the usual "Why can't we make movies more like real life?" I think a more pertinent question is "Why can't real life be more like the movies?"”

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