"As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs."

-- Michael K. Simpson

#Senior Quotes #Idaho Quotes #Drug Quotes

“I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.”

Source : Lee Friedlander (1970). “Self Portrait”
“Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.”
“You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.”
“Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.”
“When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.”

Source : Theodore Dalrymple (2001). “Life at the Bottom: The Worldview that Makes the Underclass”, Ivan R Dee
“We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the government to prevent panics. Now the only way to hold the government entirely responsible for conditions is to give up our liberty for a dictatorship. If we continue the more reasonable practice of managing our own affairs we must bear the burdens of our own mistakes. A free people cannot shift their responsibility for them to the government. Self-government means self-reliance.”
“Never have I experienced a serenity and sweetness of disposition as with my Chocolate Lab.”
“I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death....is the true measure of the Divine within us.”

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