Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989
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The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
—Dean Acheson, 1970Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.
—Rumi, c. 1260Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.
—Confucius, c. 350 BCFire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
—William Blake, 1793He who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbBetter sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
—Herman Melville, 1851Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.
—Fernand Braudel, 1979If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.
—Reggie Jackson, 1976You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.
—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
—Book of Job, c. 600 BC