“What, on the eternal list of priorities, precedes health? What more obvious role could government have than the defense of the life, of each citizen? We cannot stop every germ that seeks to harm us any more than we can stop every person who seeks to harm us. But we can try dammit and government's essential role in that effort facilitate it, reduce its cost, broaden its availability, improve my health and yours, seems, ultimately, self-explanatory.” TryingPersonsSelfSeemsGovernmentEffortRolesHealthCitizensCostEssentialsEternalObviousHarmDefenseListsPrioritiesGermsFacilitateAvailability Author:Keith Olbermann
“When you start cutting government expenditure, at some point you are cutting essential services rather than excessive services. So you have to take into account the social costs involved in cutting government spending.” GovernmentSocialCuttingInvolvedCostEssentialsAccountsSpendingExpendituresGovernment Spending Author:Raghuram Rajan
“...an imagined town is at least as real as an actual town. If it isn't, you may be in the wrong business. Our words come from obsessions we must submit to, whatever the social cost. It can be hard. It can be worse forty years from now if you feel you could have done it and didn't. It is narcissistic, vain, egotistical, unrealistic, selfish, and hateful to assume emotional ownership of a town or a word. It is also essential.” IfsFeelsYearsMayRealHardDoneSocialEmotionalCostEssentialsTownsAssumingSelfishObsessionVainFortySubmitOwnershipHatefulNarcissisticOur WordsEgotistical Author:Richard Hugo
“Women who work at home rearing children and attending to various household tasks are expected to provide something that is absolutely essential yet costs nothing, like the air we breathe.” ChildrenHomeAirCostEssentialsTasksVariousBreatheExpectedHouseholdAttendingRearing A Child Book:Springs of Water in a Dry Land: Spiritual Survival for Catholic Women Today Source: Springs of Water in a Dry Land: Spiritual Survival for Catholic Women Today
“Reintegrating the brain into the rest of the body is absolutely essential to having the kind of long-term health and substantially lower cost [of care] than if you're going to treat them separately.” IfsKindLongBodyCareTermBrainCostEssentialsTreatsLong Term Author:Newt Gingrich
“the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness was one i should willingly give up....moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable reactions to what life has dealt....even though the depressions that inevitably followed nearly cost me my life.” IfsGivingShouldMindBelieveMadeDifficultCostEssentialsDepressionGiving UpBehaviorGloryAbsolutesNotionOneselfIllnessExtremesMoodReactionsFlightMade ItSubstanceTemporaryIntensityPsychotic Author:Kay Redfield Jamison
“The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.” ChildrenDreamRealityTurnsDarkWiseChildhoodCostEssentialsConsequenceCharacteristicsSubmitDefiningAlienationEffortlessDreams And RealityMerging Book:'Salem's Lot Source: 'Salem's Lot
“I still believe in the resilience of the human heart and the essential validity of love;I still believe that connections between people can be made and that the spirits which inhabit us sometimes touch. I still believe that the cost of these connections is horribly, outrageously high... and I still believe that the value received far outweighs the price which must be paid. (From introductory notes.)” PeopleBelieveHumansHeartMadeStillsSometimesSpiritValuesCostEssentialsConnectionsPaidNotesResilienceHuman HeartValidityI Still Believe Book:Four Past Midnight Source: Four Past Midnight