"Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful."

-- Solomon Ortiz

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“... the cooperative forces are biologically the more important and vital. The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which are disoperative and egoistic is relatively close. Under many conditions the cooperative forces lose, In the long run, however, the group centered, more altruistic drives are slightly stronger. ... human altruistic drives are as firmly based on an animal ancestry as is man himself. Our tendencies toward goodness... are as innate as our tendencies toward intelligence; we could do well with more of both.”
“Nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor.”
“As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.”
“One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.”
“I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.”
“The redefined physician is human, knows she's human, accepts it ... and she works in a culture of medicine that acknowledges that human beings run the system.”
“Now I also want to say, without a doubt, there are some wonderful, wonderful, absolutely wonderful things about being a man. But at the same time, there's some stuff that's just straight up twisted. And we really need to begin to challenge, look at it, and really get in the process of deconstructing, redefining, what we come to know as manhood.”

Source : "A call to men". TED Talk, www.ted.com. December 2010.
“I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.”

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