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I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.

Thomas Menino

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

John Webster

If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

Rumi

It's easier to take than to give. It's nobler to give than to take. The thrill of taking lasts a day. The thrill of giving lasts a lifetime.

Joan Marques

In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views.

Albert Einstein

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Abraham Lincoln

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

L. Schefer

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

H. G. Bissinger

A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.

Thomas Fuller

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

Bryan Cranston

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Robertson Davies

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)