"Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society."

-- Thomas Frank

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“Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.”
“For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.”
“With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.”
“A Good Samaritan is not simply one whose heart is touched in an immediate act of care and charity, but one who provides a system of sustained care.”
“Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.”
“I love watching old movies, and some of the holiday-themed ones are really great. I also have a bizarre thing that I'll do: I'll turn on a foreign-language TV station, usually Spanish, and watch a whole show, riveted, even though I have no idea what anyone is saying. I don't know why I find that so addictive, but I do!”
“The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.”
“The art of communicating is to speak with a non judging sensitivity and mean it rather than impulsively verbalizing whatever feelings arise; there's no better way to make a point.”

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