"Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better."

-- Tom Harkin

#America Quotes #Sick Quotes #People Quotes

“Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.”

Source : 1759 To his troops,12 Sep, after reciting Thomas Gray's 'Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard' the evening before storming the ramparts of Quebec and dying a hero's death on the Plains of Abraham the following day. Quoted in Francis Parkman Montcalm and Wolfe (1884).
“The more we consume, the more we want. And the more we want, the more we have to work to pay for all these things and insure them and then get stressed about them and protect them and get bigger houses. I think true freedom comes with letting go of them.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“English music is white - it evades everything.”

Source : Edward Elgar, Percy Marshall Young (1968). “A future for English music, and other lectures”
“I've always loved songwriting, and I vowed to be a songwriter like Cole Porter when I was only 9 years old.”
“Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.”
“The voice of the drum is a spirit thing.”
“What positive things have you said to yourself today? Acknowledge your greatness.”
“If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it...”

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