"Congress would make it mandatory, absolutely require, that, every five years, people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner"

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Source : 'The Rachel Maddow Show' with Rachel Maddow, www.nbcnews.com. July 29, 2009.

Betsy McCaughey

#Years Quotes #People Quotes #Counseling Quotes

“I want to be a part of great things.”
“It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea.”
“Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.”
“Whatever enjoyment I might have had at the time would disappear overnight like snow melting on a warm roof.”
“A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.”

Source : Peggy Noonan, Steven Emerson, Brian Duffy, Thomas J. Watson, Peter Petre (1990). “Today's Best Nonfiction”
“I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.”

Source : "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace". Life magazine, Vol. 51, No. 9, p. 79, September 01, 1961.
“Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.”
“Certainly my inner world will never be a peaceful place of bloom; it will have some peace, and occasional riots of bloom, but always a little fight going on too. There is no way I can be peacefully happy in this society and in this skin. I am committed to Uneasy Street. I like it; it is my idea that this street leads to the future, and that I am being true to a way of life which is not here yet, but is more real than what is here.”

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