"Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed may provide income security; it is an attack upon Want. But Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack. The others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness."

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Source : "Social Insurance and Allied Services". The "Beveridge Report" by William Beveridge (Part 1, 8), November 1942.

William Beveridge

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“You must have me confused with myself”

Source : Michael Palmer (2001). “The Promises of Glass”, p.26, New Directions Publishing
“I got my tubes tied last fall, at age 45. . ... After 33 years or so, I struggled to gain control of my reproductive potential and its power over my destiny. Finally, instead of letting nature continue to screw around with me, at least in this one area I engineered a pre-emptive strike.”
“The man who comes to take care of my piranhas told me that if I left West Ham he would kill all my fish.”
“To be without a dog is worse than being without a song.”
“Iâ€™ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and donâ€™t ask quarters.”
“Wild Goose exemplifies how the Evangelical Left translates 'social justice' into Big Government and pacifism.”
“I wouldnâ€™t call myself a feminist. I try to live by the girl-power motto. Itâ€™s about believing in yourself, no matter how bad a day youâ€™re having, and lending your support to other women. Itâ€™s empowering to have that camaraderie with other women.”
“We don't pay taxes. The little people pay taxes.”

Source : "Farewell to the woman they called the Queen of Mean: Leona Helmsley dies at 87" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2007.

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