Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989
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There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1321The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of bourgeois stupidity.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1871He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
—John Donne, c. 1629Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.
—Immanuel Kant, 1784If the people be the governors, who shall be governed?
—John Cotton, c. 1636I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.
—Clarence Darrow, 1932When the root lives on, the new leaves come back.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCTill taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
—Lorraine Hansberry, 1965I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816I 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