"Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending Medicare to everyone, people would be delighted. There are millions of 64-year-olds out there who can hardly wait to be 65."

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Source : "Message from Massachusetts" by Marcia Angell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2010.

Marcia Angell

#Thinking Quotes #Government Quotes #Years Quotes

“This is how life works. Deciding whom to love is not an alien form of decision-making , a romantic interlude in the midst of normal life. Instead, decisions about whom to love are more intense versions of the sorts of decisions we make throughout the course of our existence, from what kind of gelato to order to what career to pursue. Living is an inherently emotional business.”
“I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live”
“These days, right now, these are the good old days. I've always approached it that way. That's why I'm still working. I'm not the guy who is ready to sit by the pool.”
“I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.”
“I got interested in the contradiction between people who are understanding the city by not moving a single inch, by remaining in the same place all the time, and people like me who are constantly roaming around.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.”
“Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests.”
“To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.”

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