All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

Voltaire

I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on.

Dave Brubeck

To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.

Heston Blumenthal

You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.

Ben Goldacre

Toate familiile fericite se aseam?n? între ele. Fiecare familie nefericit? este nefericit? în felul ei.

Leo Tolstoy

To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer -- but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort.

Scott Reed

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.

Mark Hyman

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

Raymond Chandler

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

James A. Baldwin

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

Gertrude Stein

Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Carl Sandburg

The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.

Matthew Sweet