"It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem."

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Source : United States of America Congressional Record Proceedings and Debates of the 106th Congress First Session Vol 145- Part 10, p. 14054, June 1999.

Jim Ramstad

#Aggravation Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Addiction Quotes

“Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.”

Source : "Time Is Right for Comprehensive Immigration Reform" by Rep. Hank Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2013.
“It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing the forces which have acted upon him. However deeply we should like to penetrate, however close we seem to be drawing to truth, one unknown quantity eludes us: man's primordial energy, his original self, that personality which was given him with the gift of life itself. On it rests man's true freedom; it alone determines his real character.”
“[H]e who fears to lose will never win.”

Source : David Gemmell (2011). “Legend”, p.131, Hachette UK
“Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.”

Source : "Davos: Quiet Optimism Rises, Angelina Who?, and a Bonus to Giving Idea" by Cameron Sinclair, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2009.
“Everybody's got their secrets; I carry mine like a jagged stone in my shoe.”

Source : Patrick Jones (2009). “Chasing Tail Lights”, p.3, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“We all have a world of things inside ourselves and each one of us has his own private world. How can we understand each other if the words I use have the sense and the value that I expect them to have, but whoever is listening to me inevitably thinks that those same words have a different sense and value, because of the private world he has inside himself, too.”

Source : Luigi Pirandello (1985). “Three plays”, Methuen Drama
“In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis.”
“Some records are timeless, and some absolutely sound of their day.”

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