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"“Stung by the defeat of Truman’s national health plan, reformers quickly formulated a new strategy: focus only on hospital insurance for seniors... Robert Ball, a top official in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations [writes] "We expected Medicare to be a first step toward universal national health insurance." ”" — Nov 20, 2025 05:47AM
"“Stung by the defeat of Truman’s national health plan, reformers quickly formulated a new strategy: focus only on hospital insurance for seniors... Robert Ball, a top official in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations [writes] "We expected Medicare to be a first step toward universal national health insurance." ”" — Nov 20, 2025 05:47AM
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"“One of Darwin's monumental insights was that Homo sapiens co-evolved with everything else in the living world. "We must acknowledge…that man with all his noble qualities still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin," he wrote in The Descent of Man. How profoundly different this is from Carter's anthropic principle in cosmology, operating outside the natural evolution of the universe.”" — Nov 20, 2025 11:58AM
"“One of Darwin's monumental insights was that Homo sapiens co-evolved with everything else in the living world. "We must acknowledge…that man with all his noble qualities still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin," he wrote in The Descent of Man. How profoundly different this is from Carter's anthropic principle in cosmology, operating outside the natural evolution of the universe.”" — Nov 20, 2025 11:58AM
“The blessing of Google is its uncanny skill in finding what you're looking for; the curse is that it so rarely finds any of those lovely odd things you're -not- looking for. For that pleasure, it seems, we need -books.-
(Bran Flakes and Harmless Drudges)”
― Wayfaring: Essays Pleasant and Unpleasant
(Bran Flakes and Harmless Drudges)”
― Wayfaring: Essays Pleasant and Unpleasant
“Life is not something, it is the opportunity for something!”
― Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
― Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
“To embrace chance is to invite serendipity.”
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“By not being aware of having a shadow, you declare a part of your personality to be non-existent. Then it enters the kingdom of the non-existent, which swells up and takes on enormous proportions…If you get rid of qualities you don’t like by denying them, you become more and more unaware of what you are, you declare yourself more and more non-existent, and your devils will grow fatter and fatter.”
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“There is in every person an inward sea, and in that sea there is an island and on that island there is an altar and standing guard before that altar is the 'angel with the flaming sword.' Nothing can get by that angel to be placed upon that altar unless it has the mark of your inner authority. Nothing passes 'the angel with the flaming sword' to be placed upon your altar unless it be a part of 'the fluid area of your consent.' This is your crucial link with the Eternal.”
― Meditations of the Heart
― Meditations of the Heart
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