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Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.
Herbert HooverRead
There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.
Antonin ArtaudRead
[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which is precious to a man-of the chief human property, rational freedom-and become submissive, machine-like implements of murder in the hands of their organized hierarchic authorities.
Leo TolstoyRead
A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand the same kind of explanation in his own right.
Richard DawkinsRead
Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.
Charles KetteringRead
Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.
Woodrow WilsonRead
Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiRead
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
Leon TrotskyRead
It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.
AristotleRead
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
Max FrischRead
The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.
Bertrand RussellRead
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. My mother, who had organized the party, told me that the lady at the bakery said that they had never put a book on a birthday cake before, and that mostly for boys it was footballs or spaceships. I was their first book.
Neil GaimanRead
Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
Franklin D. RooseveltRead
We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose.
Carl SaganRead
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
Carl JungRead
There is a theory that if you yearn sincerely enough for a Guru, you will find one. The universe will shift, destiny's molecules will get themselves organized and your path will soon intersect with the path of the master you need.
Elizabeth GilbertRead
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
Thomas JeffersonRead
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Thomas HuxleyRead
Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)
Sherman AlexieRead
I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure
Anthony BourdainRead

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