"Obesity is a drain on the economy - we have to pay for the health care of fat people who are usually poor and can't afford insurance. Obesity is, well, bad."

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Source : "Hey Dems, We Want Our Milk and Cookies" by Emily Levine, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2006.

Emily Levine

#People Quotes #Care Quotes #Pay Quotes

“Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”

Source : Lawrence Durrell (2015). “From the Elephant's Back: Collected Essays & Travel Writings”, p.23, University of Alberta
“Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.”
“I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.”
“Thus Pyrrhonism is not a sect of people who are persuaded of what they say, but it is a sect of liars.”
“We live a short enough time on this earth. A man should do what he loves.”

Source : Gail Tsukiyama (2007). “The Street of a Thousand Blossoms”, p.230, Macmillan
“Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.”

Source : Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books
“If we look for ways to get rid of necessary pain, we'll be disillusioned or misled. For people who define real change as the elimination of inevitable struggle, the final chapters will be terribly disappointing.”

Source : Larry Crabb, Lawrence James Crabb (1991). “Inside Out”, NavPress Publishing Group
“It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good.”

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