"Not surprisingly, the insurance lobby recoils in horror at the prospect of automatic coverage ( including, when it was first proposed, Social Security), no matter how efficient it may be. Automatic coverage eliminates sales commissions and profit."

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Andrew Tobias

#May Quotes #Matter Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill.”
“Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.”
“Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart...”
“It's been like therapy to be able to play music and not embarrass my children too much. They've come to a bunch of the shows. It's kind of cool. I'm glad they like it.”

Source : Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.
“We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that weâ€™re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isnâ€™t all totally pointless.”
“I'm an introspective dude.”
“Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, itâ€™s not clear that he ever really did.”

Source : Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.141, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.”

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