55 Quotes

“I shall take the heart. [...] For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“55 and older is now the fastest growing segment of the USA workforce...and retirement is becoming a fond memory of the past.”
― Steven Magee

“The United States granted asylum to exactly eight of 24,559 Haitian refugees applying for political asylum during that period [1981]... only 20 percent of those polled [in the US] said immigration should be easier for Haitians, while 55 percent said it should be more difficult. After a decade during which less than 0.5 percent of Haitian applicants were granted asylum, one wonders how much more difficult it could be.”
― Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor