Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. Let us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home. ~Dennis Kucinich
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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If I die, I forgive you. If I live, we shall see. ~Spanish Proverb
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Health care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. ~Louis Dudek
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I have picked myself up and gone on. ~Sharon Stone
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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
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The maxims of men disclose their hearts. ~French Proverb
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I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg. I don't usually admit this publicly, because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it, to use it as a way of luring audiences in. ~Terry Gilliam
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I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be. ~Anna Kendrick
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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That is a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. ~William Shakespeare
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves. When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, presuming on their changeful potency. ~William Shakespeare
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Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks. ~Steven Rattner
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
#proverbs #flemish-proverbs #light #doctors #medicine

Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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