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Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.

—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.

—Dante Alighieri, c. 1321

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

—Gustave Flaubert, 1871

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

—Francis Bacon, 1625

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

—John Donne, c. 1629

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.

—Immanuel Kant, 1784

If the people be the governors, who shall be governed?

—John Cotton, c. 1636

I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.

—Clarence Darrow, 1932

When the root lives on, the new leaves come back.

—Aeschylus, c. 458 BC

Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.

—Lord Byron, 1819

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

—Lorraine Hansberry, 1965

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

—Thomas Jefferson, 1816

I had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.

—Elizabeth Inchbald, 1793