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“To be truthful, Mike, we’d like to kill you. The vote went two-to-one.”
― Mark Barkawitz, Full Moon Saturday Night

“Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, “Then it was a good service?”

Lincoln responded, “No.” The aide protested,

“But, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant.”

“Yes,” replied Lincoln, “but he didn’t challenge us to do any great thing.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Cooperative Care in Wisconsin, which provides care to the elderly, was able to give its 81 members in 2004 relatively high pay, workers’ compensation, ten days’ paid vacation, and 50 to 75 percent health insurance coverage, all only three years after beginning operations.79 Similarly, Cooperative Home Care Associates in the Bronx, New York, founded in 1985, offers its 1700 members “significantly better pay and working conditions than most home health aides.”80”
― Chris Wright, Worker Cooperatives and Revolution: History and Possibilities in the United States