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“I'll give you a simple formula for straightening out the problems of the United States. First, you tax the churches. You take the tax off of capital gains and the tax off of savings. You decriminalize all and tax them same way as you do alcohol. You decriminalize . You make gambling legal. That will put the budget back on the road to recovery, and you'll have plenty of tax revenue coming in for all of your social programs, and to run the army.”

Source: Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living

“Don't ever let anyone tell you that history doesn't repeat. For 70 years, liberals have been spinning the yarn that FDR's New Deal, despite all the evidence that it exacerbated and prolonged the Great Depression, quickened our economic recovery. Indeed, I remember scratching my head when one of my college history professors in the 1970s tried to convince us of that theory and its corollary - an even better howler - that FDR was actually a conservative, because if he hadn't implemented his socialist programs, the republic would have died right there.”

“Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics and reflection about recovery.This is not one of those memoirs.”

Reflection Addiction Heal Tales Memoir Recovery Statistics Scar Alcoholism Promiscuity

Author:Kate Madison

“Recovery culture teaches you that you have to repent. I don't think that's necessary.”

Thinking Culture Teach Recovery Repent

Author:Zachary Cole Smith

“A level of anxiety and tension and outright fear that so many people have felt, not only during the recession but during this slow economic recovery since. This made me very much want to up the conversation about how miracle-minded thinking applies to that area of life.”

People Thinking Want Made Felt Levels Economic Conversation Anxiety Areas Miracle Recovery Tension Recessions Economic Recovery

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Non-mainstream people seem to balk at the idea of 12-step. A lot of us think 12-step recovery means sitting in a church basement full of Republicans and Christians who drink to much.”

People Thinking Mean Ideas Seems Christian Church Steps Drink Republican Sitting Recovery Mainstream Basements Very Mean 12 Step Recovery 12 Step

Author:Bucky Sinister

“I felt that if people understood the struggle of recovery, then some of the stigma of addiction might be reduced because the audience would understand in a palpable way that addiction is a disease that tells the afflicted, despite years or even decades of heartbreaking evidence to the contrary, that using will make things better.”

People Ifs Way Years Might Felt Audience Struggle Disease Understood Evidence Addiction Decades Contrary Recovery Despite Heartbreaking Stigma

Author:Brian Lindstrom

“I felt like any individual's recovery was more important than the film I was making. And I actually felt that my presence was a form of witness that communicated to the people I was following that their lives mattered.”

People Important Film Form Individual Felt Following Recovery Witness

Author:Brian Lindstrom

“I do think that this represents a kind of shift towards myth, a recovery of myth, largely through the popularity of writers like Philip Pullman. Somehow myths have returned as a serious subject. It used to be scorned...really scorned. It was part of a nursery tradition, and it was also rather tainted - but not in an immovable way - by the association with right-wing ideologies after the World Wars.”

“You don't need to hide the fact that you're in recovery, but you don't have to share your history of addiction with acquaintances at work, either.”

Needs Facts Share Addiction Recovery Acquaintance

Author:Mallory Ortberg

“The more years I go, the more experience I have, the more that nutrition and eating the right foods is important for recovery and things like that.”

Years Important Eating Recovery Nutrition

Author:Stephen Curry

“With my recovery programme, I have to do a daily inventory of how my day has been. I am terribly dyslexic and have attention deficit disorder, so I have to carry a tape recorder everywhere I go.”

Has Beens Attention Recovery Disorder Tape Deficit Programmes Inventory Recorders Dyslexic Attention Deficit Disorder

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“I've failed so many times in my life that my recovery time has improved. I'm better at redirecting my attention. I've trained in Radical Aliveness and Core Energetics over the past couple of years and that has allowed me to see how much we project our failures onto others. It has taught me to accept myself. There is real power in owning your truth.”

Years Real Past Attention Accepting Taught Couple Projects Core Recovery Radical Over The Past Real Power

Author:Damon Runyon

“I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then in "Choke" it's 12-step recovery groups. In one novel it's artists' colonies, in another novel it's a diary form that submariners' wives typically keep so that when their husband comes back from serving on a submarine they have an accounting of their spouse's time. So I'm always looking for, number one, a non-fiction context - because you can tell a more outrageous story if you use a non-fiction form.”

“Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates of recovery from severe mental illness have not improved despite the availability of apparently effective therapies such as antipsychotic drugs.”

“Recovery is a bit like an addiction; you take it day by day. If you set yourself too many goalposts, you'll have problems.”

Ifs Problem Bits Addiction Recovery

Author:Simon Weston

“Soul recovery, I think, is much richer and more helpful. Instead of having a shaman retrieve our soul for us, we help each other to become the shamans and healers of our own soul.”

Thinking Soul Helping Recovery Helpful Healer Helping Each Other

Author:Robert Moss

“This relates to the concept of time and our ability as dreamers to reach across time to a past or future self and do some good. This is very important as it relates to soul loss and soul recovery.”

Important Soul Self Past Loss Ability Concepts Recovery Relate Dreamer Concept Of Time Future Self

Author:Robert Moss

“It's my job as President and Congress’s job to maker sure that there’s some rules of the road that people are going to abide by and that we’ve got transparency and accountability that this stuff is being posted and one of the things that we are going to do is put together an independent board on the recovery package…”

People Together Jobs Stuff President Independent Congress Recovery Boards Accountability Packages Transparency

Author:Barack Obama

“There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.”

Disease Recovery Alcoholism Incurable Disease

Author:Malachy McCourt

“We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.”

Kind Economy Policy Starting Recovery Pursued Public Policy

Author:E. J. Dionne

“History teaches that when valuations are extreme, "mean reversion," a move towards historical norms, is likely. Once value stocks turn, the recovery can be fast and intense.”

Mean Moving Values Turns Teach Historical Extremes Intense Recovery Norm Valuation

Author:Robert D. Arnott

“Rwanda is a very open and free country. Key to our recovery as a nation has a range of grassroots, citizen-centered polices we call "homegrown solutions." The idea that Rwanda is highly controlled from the center belies the reality, which is that citizens in every village have a powerful say in how things get done. We prize accountability and Rwandans are quickly adapting themselves to the possibilities of a digital economy.”

“Over the years I realized the damage fundamentalism did to my own spiritual and mental health. I've spend time recovering, studying scripture, sessions with a therapist, twelve step recovery.”

Years Spiritual My Own Steps Study Mental Health I Realized Scripture Recovery Damage Twelve Fundamentalism End Times Session Spend Time Therapists Recovering

Author:Richard Rossi

“I've been doing a lot of yoga to help with my running, recovery, and mental clarity. It works great for me.”

Helping Running Yoga Recovery Clarity

Author:Angie Martinez

“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.”

“I feel very blessed that at a young age I was able to navigate my battle with drug and alcohol addiction, and through recovery live a sober life. There is such a stigma attached to addiction and it was hard for me to both confront and overcome it. I am very proud and grateful that with the support of family and friends, I was able to do so.”

“How do we create jobs for so many Americans who are feeling pushed out, not just left out, pushed out of the modern economy. Obviously it's skills and education. But it's also jobs. So if I could do anything it would be to take this moment in time that we've got when, yes, our recovery is better, we've had steadier growth, I don't think President [Barack] Obama frankly gets the credit he deserves for the kind of steady hand that he and his advisers apply to moving through that really dangerous period.”

“People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day. And there’s an important reason for this: People on such journeys are adepts at change. They know that the mechanics of the heart and mind are the fundamental drivers of transformation.”

“I was taught early on in my recovery that, 'Pain is good. Extreme pain is extremely good.'”

Pain Taught Extremes Recovery Extreme Pain

Author:Mike Ness

“Usually step one in a recovery is admitting that you have a problem. I think that's an important thing for the Republican Party to do.”

Thinking Important Problem Party Steps Republican Important Things Recovery Republican Party Admitting

Author:Andrea Tantaros

“Everyone knows I drink a lot of Diet Coke, so...I drink chocolate milk after races as my recovery drink, and you won't ever find me without a peanut butter sandwich in my bag at races or without a jar of peanut butter when I am heading to Europe.”

Knows Race Drink Europe Recovery Diets Bags Chocolate Milk Find Me Sandwiches Headings Jars Peanuts Coke Peanut Butter Diet Coke Peanut Butter Sandwiches Chocolate Milk

Author:Kristin Armstrong

“It isn't too late to shift from the swift, sharp decline of ocean systems in recent decades to an era of steady recovery. There is time, and there is a growing awareness, which is the best way to counter indifference. People who know might care.”

People Knows Way Might Care Growing Awareness Ocean Late Decades Best Way Recovery Eras Indifference Too Late Steady Decline

Author:Sylvia Earle

“The women's movement resurgence of standing up for so many things that were kind of sleepy there for a decade or so, there's been a reawakening and I think the consciousness movement in general is dovetailing with a lot of recovery and self-empowerment.”

Thinking Kind Self Consciousness Movement Empowerment Standing Decades Recovery Self Empowerment Sleepy Resurgence

Author:Bonnie Raitt

“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.”

“For most of the rise of modern medicine, the brain was a really unknown zone and was all based in guesswork. Well, that's all changing. And the opioid recovery is a very good example of the scale of change we're seeing.”

Wells Brain Seeing Modern Example Medicine Very Good Scales Recovery Zone Good Examples Modern Medicine Guesswork Opioids

Author:Newt Gingrich

“Love is great and it does help a lot of people, but a lot of people do have things like depression or schizophrenia or bipolar disorder or other disorders, all of which will need to be addressed in order for people to stay in long-term recovery.”

People Needs Long Doe Helping Order Term Love Is Recovery Long Term Disorder Bipolar Schizophrenia Bipolar Disorder

Author:Maia Szalavitz

“That's in part what the Green New Deal is designed to do. So it's not only to address the climate emergency, but also to address the economic emergency, because the recovery has really gone to the top.”

Deals Gone Economic Green Climate Recovery Addresses Emergencies New Deal

Author:Jill Stein

“I'm three years into my recovery from heroin and all this stuff and I want to be able to help people. But they have to do it on their own.”

People Want Years Helping Able Three Stuff Recovery Three Years Heroin

Author:Anthony Green

“People think of a business cycle, which is a boom followed by a recession and then automatic stabilizers revive the economy. But this time we can't revive. The reason is that every recovery since 1945 has begun with a higher, and higher level of debt. The debt is so high now, that since 2008 we've been in what I call, debt deflation.”

People Thinking Reason Levels Economy Higher Debt Recovery Cycles Recessions Higher Level Revive Deflation

Author:Michael Hudson

“There really isn't a recovery, and no signs of it on the horizon, because people have to pay the banks. It's a vicious circle - or rather, a downward spiral.”

People Pay Circles Recovery Horizon Vicious Spirals Vicious Circles Downward Spiral

Author:Michael Hudson

“We're still in the collapse that began after 2008. There's not a new collapse, there hasn't been a recovery.”

Stills Recovery Collapse

Author:Michael Hudson

“The erosion of agency has consequences for our politics. As a result of all this, the fundamental ethical challenge of the anthropocene is the recovery of agency, or alternatively to come to terms with its loss and to understand how to go on.”

Term Challenges Loss Results Goes On Consequence Fundamentals Recovery Agency Ethical Erosion

Author:Dale Jamieson

“We've seen the weakest economic recovery since World War II, and massive levels of inequality and debt.”

World War Levels Economic Debt Recovery Inequality War Of The Worlds Massive World War Ii World War I Economic Recovery

Author:Kshama Sawant

“If some of the recovery money had gone to cities instead of states, the urban population, read "Black" and "Brown," would be better off with recovery jobs.”

Ifs States Would Be Jobs Black Cities Gone Population Recovery Brown Urban Better Off

Author:Julianne Malveaux

“Interesting statistic: In every economic recovery until 1982, working people captured more than 80 percent of the value of the recovery. Since 1982, the top 10 percent has captured 90 percent of the value of the economic recovery.”

People Values Interesting Economic Percent Recovery Captured Top 10 Economic Recovery

Author:Julianne Malveaux

“I think what is true is that there's been an underlying division in the United States. Some of it has to do with the fact that economic growth and recovery tends to be stronger in the cities and in urban areas. In some rural areas, particularly those that were reliant on manufacturing, there has been weaker growth, stagnation, people feeling as if their children won't do as well as they will.”

“I will continue to urge creditors to take the steps needed to put Greece on a path towards a durable economic recovery because it's in all of our interests that Greece succeeds.”

Interest Steps Path Economic Needed Succeed Recovery Urges Greece Creditors Economic Recovery

Author:Barack Obama

“If we can’t puncture some of the mythology around austerity, politics or tax cuts or the mythology that’s been built up around the Reagan revolution, where somehow people genuinely think that he slashed government and slashed the deficit and that the recovery was because of all these massive tax cuts, as opposed to a shift in interest-rate policy - if we can’t describe that effectively, then we’re doomed to keep on making more and more mistakes.”

People Ifs Thinking Government Interest Mistake Cutting Policy Revolution Taxes Built Rate Mythology Recovery Massive Doomed Deficit Tax Cuts Interest Rate Austerity Puncture

Author:Barack Obama

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