"France, like every other Western country except the United States, has long accepted the principle that comprehensive health care is the right of every citizen. No Frenchman need ever fear that catastrophic illness will wipe him out financially. How long, do you suppose, will it take us, in the United States, to catch up?"

-- Suzanne Massie

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“An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming any part without regenerating it.”
“I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.”
“I shine in tears like the sun in April.”

Source : Cyril Tourneur, Thomas Middleton, C. R. A. Foakes (1996). “The Revenger's Tragedy”, p.127, Manchester University Press
“Everyone has the impulse to be elite.”
“Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel.”
“What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?”

Source : Edgar Quinet (1845). “Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society”, p.78
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”

Source : John Brown ch. 13 (1909)
“in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members.”

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