Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good. – Lucy Larcom
We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and were surrendering it all at the same time. – Paul Hawken
I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state. – George Osborne