"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."

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Source : Suzanne Gordon, Claire M. Fagin (2007). “Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines”, p.308, Cornell University Press

Suzanne Gordon

#Country Quotes #Pain Quotes #America Quotes

“The stage was our school, our home, our life.”

Source : Lillian Gish, Ann Pinchot (1969). “The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me”
“If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.”

Source : Peggy Noonan, Steven Emerson, Brian Duffy, Thomas J. Watson, Peter Petre (1990). “Today's Best Nonfiction”
“These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who have become as men and men who have become as women. Writers of books with long titles. Only those knights who have failed to touch the Grail. Industrious women. You, and I, and a boy named Oleg, and a girl with blue hair.”
“Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life.”
“Maybe Ridley was like chicken pox; you could only catch it once.”
“There were a number of referendums in '98 that most of the things I voted for passed. That's very satisfying when you feel that most of the country is in step with your views.”
“If you pretend you're completely mad, people believe it. The only thing I wanted when making the film was to have fun.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“The Garden of Eden presents the same story: If you want to make yourself gods, you'll find you're akin to the animals.”

Source : Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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