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I've had very little negative pushback. I think people in the Senate know that I have believed, for a number of years, and have been outspoken that we need to listen to what the American people are telling us, and we need to focus more on the well-being of people who make lower wages, $50,000 and below.

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Abraham Flexner

A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.

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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking. . . Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.

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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. . . no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

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The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.

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