Rehabilitation Quotes - Page 4

• Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

  Quentin Crisp

  Sleep, Opposites, Needs

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• Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Men, Odds

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.42, Delphi Classics

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• Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?

  Jennifer Granholm

  Country, Want, Backbone

  "State of the States". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 22, 2009.

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• Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.

  Jack Kingston

  Cost, World, Economy

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• Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.

  Barbara Kruger

  Artist, Tactics, Addresses

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• As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.

  John M. McHugh

  Memorial Day, War, America

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• Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay.

  Gary Miller

  Doors, Pay, Emergencies

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• New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

  Christopher Morley

  New York, Cities, Literature

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• Music is like a drug, but there are no rehabilitation centres.

  Steven Morrissey

  Memorable, Drug, Music Is

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• Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

  Sherwood Eddy

  Faith, Believe, Trying

  Sherwood Eddy (1934). “A Pilgrimage of Ideas: Or, The Re-education of Sherwood Eddy”

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• If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

  Ezra Pound

  Decay, Literature, Decline

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.32, New Directions Publishing

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• The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

  Ernest Renan

  Death, Greatness, Men

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• As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepared to handle the continued threat of violence and terrorism on our country.

  Leonard Boswell

  Anniversary, Country, September 11

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• We must pay attention to the millions of children of this generation who are caught up in armed conflicts. How can we protect them from the worst consequences of war? And when hostilities cease, how can we take the war out of them? By eliminating landmines, controlling the sale of small arms, raising the age of recruitment ... are all essential measures. By reuniting children with their families and providing programs of physical and psychological rehabilitation.

  Landon Pearson

  Children, War, Age

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• Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been impaired, judicial administration has suffered. It is the poor, the sick, the ignorant, the powerless, and the hated who are executed.

  Ramsey Clark

  Sick, Ignorant, Administration

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• Who owns the assets of our Nation? Increasingly, foreign interests own our assets, and we owe them money. No wonder people think our country is headed in the wrong direction. It is.

  Marcy Kaptur

  Country, Thinking, People

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• The present treatments for brain cancer are not curative. We need new and better treatments. More funding for research. Legislation to improve the research system and to provide better access to care, treatment, and rehabilitation services for all brain tumor survivors.

  Shannon O'Brien

  Cancer, Brain, Needs

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• There's a pressure regardless of that to do a good show.

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Pressure, Shows

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• The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.

  Corazon Aquino

  Shots, Nations, Awakened

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• I play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservancy, specifically bird rehabilitation.

  Mark Salling

  Real, Passion, Boys

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• Our nation's infrastructure needs are tremendous, and they're growing.

  Bill Lipinski

  Needs, Growing, Infrastructure

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• In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America.

  Bill Jenkins

  America, Shining, Needs

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• America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Children, America, Ambivalent

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Character, Men, Needs

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• A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

  Raymond Queneau

  Iliad, Creation, Concern

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