"Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want."

-- Virginia Postrel

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“You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me.”
“A refund for defective software might be nice, except it would bankrupt the entire software industry in the first year.”

Source : "Computer Networks". Book by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 1981.
“The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses you understand.”
“We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.”

Source : "Alabama Official: Self-Deportation is What We Want" by Elizabeth Llorente, www.foxnews.com. October 6, 2011.
“I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.”
“Canada was built on dead beavers.”
“I wandered over across the hall where they were showing a short movie about vasectomies. Much later I told her that I'd actually gotten a vasectomy a long time ago, and somebody else must have gotten her pregnant. I also told her once that I had inoperable cancer and would soon be passed away and gone, eternally. But nothing I could think up, no matter how dramatic or horrible, ever made her repent or love me the way she had at first, before she really knew me.”
“I, too, have stars/ and blue depths.”

Source : Olav H. Hauge (2008). “The Dream We Carry: Selected and Last Poems of Olav H. Hauge”, p.5, Copper Canyon Press

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