Thomas Frank Quotes

The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else's funds - is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them.

Thomas Frank

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 21, 1965

Topics

HealthCareInsuranceYouChoice

The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.

Jim Webb

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

John Berger

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Over the course of history, many Jews have ultimately embraced Christianity - some forcibly, some in order to advance in non-Jewish society, some out of wholehearted belief.

Meir Soloveichik

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There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific.

John Sayles

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Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical 'experience machine' that, for the rest of your life, would stimulate your brain and give you any positive feelings you desire. Most people to whom I offer this imaginary choice refuse the machine. It is not just positive feelings we want: we want to be entitled to our positive feelings.

Martin Seligman

LifePositiveExperiencePeopleRest

And the university's reputation will only continue to grow as stories like Elaine's are spread. Delaware State University's motto 'a past to honor, a future to insure,' couldn't be any more fitting for this transitional period you are going through.

Michael N. Castle

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Purple lipstick? Naw, that looks stupid on all girls!

ASAP Rocky

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I go on a hunt for things that make sense to me and that I can actively play as an actress.

Allison Janney

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A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth.

Sylvia Plath

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If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.

Sharon Olds

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My interests in the world of technology are mainly video games, but I like tech as a means to help solve big issues, such as the demands on natural resources.

Thomas Middleditch

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Honestly, my idea of a fun night out is something like being in the middle of America in a pickup truck with a few friends.

Riley Keough

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