"Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk about a double whammy."

-- Anna Quindlen

#Kids Quotes #Sick Quotes #Care Quotes

“The great geniuses are those who have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.”
“I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.”
“Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow.”
“Imagine living in a country where the cops are all people who're cut out for the job.”

Source : Michael Dibdin (2008). “Ratking”, p.166, Faber & Faber
“The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.”

Source : Remarks Announcing Campaign Suspension, delivered 19 January 2012, North Charleston, South Carolina
“We have sacrificed the old immaterial gods, and now we are occupying the temple of the Market-God. He organizes our economy, our politics, our habits, our lives, and even provides us with rates and credit cards and gives us the appearance of happiness.”
“I want the seals of power and place, the ensigns of command, charged by the people's unbought grace, to rule my native land. Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask but from my country's will, by day, by night, to ply the task her cup of bliss to fill.”
“Consider, children ... the pain of touching the tip of your finger to your mother's stove, even for a fraction of a second. That is an experience which most of you have suffered. Now try to imagine that pain, not simply on a fingertip but spread over the whole surface of your body, and not for a mere second, but everlastingly. That, children, is hellfire.”

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