The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy its a permanent feature of life and theres nothing anyone can do about it. – Mark Steyn
Dick Cheney said he was running again. He said his health was fine, Ive got a doctor with me 24 hours a day. Yeah, thats always the sign of a man in good health, isnt it? – David Letterman
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in the horse as he is leaping. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
I wanted to be with the kind of people Id grown up with, but you cant go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try. – Ethel Waters
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software. – Greg Egan
We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in mens mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other mens keeping. – Michel de Montaigne
