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• The intensive and concerted effort to exclude references to religion or God from public places is an attack on our founding principles. It's an attempt to bolster a growing reliance on the government--especially the judiciary--as the source of our rights. But if our rights are not unalienable, if they don't come from a source higher than ourselves, then they're malleable at the will of the state. This is a prescription for tyranny.

  Mark Levin

  Rights, Government, Effort

  Mark R. Levin (2006). “Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America”, p.53, Regnery Publishing

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• The Four Noble Truths are pragmatic rather than dogmatic. They suggest a course of action to be followed rather than a set of dogmas to be believed. The four truths are prescriptions for behavior rather than descriptions of reality. The Buddha compares himself to a doctor who offers a course of therapeutic treatment to heal one’s ills. To embark on such a therapy is not designed to bring one any closer to ‘the Truth’ but to enable one’s life to flourish here and now, hopefully leaving a legacy that will continue to have beneficial repercussions after one’s death. (154)

  Stephen Batchelor

  Buddhism, Reality, Doctors

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• There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were.

  David Foster Wallace

  Reform, Dialect, Facts

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• Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

  Chinua Achebe

  Giving, Thought Provoking, Headache

  "Anthills of the Savannah". Book by Chinua Achebe, 1987.

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• The best prescription is knowledge.

  C. Everett Koop

  Health, Knowledge, Personal Growth

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• He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the only one in the house who wasn't afraid to go into the basement by himself. He cut himself shaving, but no one kissed it or got excited about it. It was understood when it rained, he got the car and brought it around to the door. When anyone was sick, he went out to get the prescription filled. He took lots of pictures... but he was never in them.

  Erma Bombeck

  Daughter, Father, Cutting

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• One possible sign of low self-esteem is suppressing parts of yourself so you can fill someone else's expectations of what you should be. You try to fill someone else's (or your own) prescription of perfection, instead of being yourself and embracing your originality.

  Robin Meade

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Expectations

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• More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.

  Dan Lipinski

  Senior, Long, Drug

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• I have come to doubt whether the FDA rules should apply to cannabis. There is no question about its safety. It is one of humanity's oldest medicines, used for thousands of years by millions of people with very little evidence of significant toxic effects. More is known about its adverse effects than about those of most prescription drugs.

  Lester Grinspoon

  Fda, Adverse Effects, Years

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• A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

  Russell Baker

  Two, Problem, Solve

  Russell Baker (1965). “All Things Considered”

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• I think that if it is - has to do with global warming, or if it has to do with raising the minimum wage, or if it has to do with lowering prescription drugs for vulnerable citizens - all of those things are people issues, not Democratic issues or Republican issues.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Thinking, Issues, People

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. November 25.

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• Eventually I discovered for myself the utterly simple prescription for creativity; be intensely yourself. Don't try to be outstanding; don't try to be a success;don't try to do pictures for others to look at- just please yourself.

  Ralph Steiner

  Photography, Creativity, Simple

  Ralph Steiner (1978). “A point of view”, Wesleyan

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• It seems to me as I reviewed the literature that, with few exceptions, the more confident were the prescriptions about how to behave with ethics and integrity, the further removed was the author from the life and work of the everyday manager.

  Steve Kerr

  Integrity, Everyday, Literature

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• I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Get Well Soon, Doctors, Modern Life

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• We should demand that (Customs and Border Protection) focus on the true priority that we face on the war on terror... Stripping small amounts of prescription drugs from the hands of seniors... that should not be a priority.

  David Vitter

  Senior, War, Hands

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• The doctor knows that it is the prescription slip itself, even more than what is written on it, that is often the vital ingredient for enabling a patient to get rid of whatever is ailing him.

  Norman Cousins

  Recovery, Doctors, Enabling

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.

  Malcolm Potts

  Funny, Humorous, Smoking

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• To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.

  Francis Bowen

  Inspiring, Health, Exercise

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• Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of the seats of diseases, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. How often are we disappointed in our expectation from the most certain and powerful of our remedies, by the negligence or obstinacy of our patients! What mischief have we done under the belief of false facts and false theories! We have assisted in multiplying diseases. We have done more — we have increased their mortality.

  Benjamin Rush

  Truth, Ignorance, Convince Us

  "Medical Inquiries and Observations".

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• My love is as a fever, longing still
  For that which longer nurseth the disease,
  Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
  Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please.
  My reason, the physician to my love,
  Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,
  Hath left me, and I desperate now approve
  Desire is death, which physic did except.

  William Shakespeare

  Famous Love, Love Is, Desire

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 147.

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• As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Senior, Travel, Idaho

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• Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Love, Taken, Healing

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• Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.

  Isaac Newton

  Wise, Skills, Medicine

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• Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts, and after looking about for a few thousand years declares itself in possession of eternal truths. But in a world that is changing as fast as ours, this is a prescription for disaster. No nation, no religion, no economic system, no body of knowledge, is likely to have all the answers for our survival. There must be many social systems that would work far better than any now in existence. In the scientific tradition, our task is to find them.

  Carl Sagan

  Years, Survival, Answers

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• At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and fully running a lot more seniors will pay a whole lot less than they do today for their much-needed medications.

  Dennis Hastert

  Senior, Running, Law

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