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“By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit nursing-home entrepreneurs - and then when private resources are consumed and the patient qualifies as a pauper, the nursing home begins billing Medicaid. This is precisely the antithesis of social citizenship; instead of the poor being accorded the dignity associated with the middle class, equality of treatment is achieved by making the middle class undergo pauperization.”
Source : "The Economic Illusion". Book by Robert Kuttner, 1984.
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“All of the things I've directed, I'm really emotionally close to. That's why I choose to direct them and spend years on them.”
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“Art is art when it is appreciated by someone.”
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“There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing campaign, they somehow believe that they can sell 10 million records. That's delusional. No one sells 10 million records. The days of musicians getting rich off of selling records are done.”
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“If you care about this country, if you want to take part in a citizen’s movement that helps heal the deep racial, economic, and cultural divides tearing us apart, you must read Eric Deggans’ Race-Baiter. No book of recent vintage so thoroughly dissects the media’s monetized appetite for division. Provocative, honest, and smart, Race-Baiter is a supremely important book. Read it and let the conversation begin.”
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“The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.”
Source : Eiji Yoshikawa (2012). “Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan”, p.1255, Vertical, Inc.
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“Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever observed an uncaused cause and simply inventing one merely assumes what the argument wishes to prove.”
Source : Dan Barker (2009). “Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists”, p.108, Ulysses Press
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“We only make the mistakes that we have to make to learn what we're here to learn right now.”
Source : Joseph Jaworski (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.12, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
