Distributional Quotes

#1. Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

Donald Berwick

#2. Distributional coalitions slow down a society's capacity to adopt new technologies and to reallocate resources in response to changing conditions, and thereby reduce the rate of economic growth.

Mancur Olson

#3. We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion.

Swami Vivekananda

#4. Being an environmentalist isn't all about doom and gloom.

David Suzuki

#5. I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.

Tommy Lasorda

#6. Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you weren't friends before you started dating, then what do you go back to, really?

Ed Sheeran

#7. Utopianism is, as Plato taught us at the outset, the fire with which we must play because it is the only way we can find out what we are. We need to criticize false understandings of Utopia, but the easy way out provided by realism is deadly.

Allan Bloom

#8. I don't need a sensationalized headline to sell music or to bring attention to my music. It's the music and it's always been about the music.

Big Boi

#9. And I know when I was younger, and still, I always marvel at what I feel is different from what I'm told that I'm supposed to feel.

Andrew McCarthy

#10. and I liked these moments because his touch felt like fire

R.J. Lewis

#11. My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to me to say that I couldn't do anything.

Alanis Morissette

#12. If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I'll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don't believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.

Joel Kinnaman

#13. Jesus Christ didnt commit the gospel to an advertising agency; He commissioned disciples. And He didnt command them to put up signs and pass out tracts; He said that they would be His witnesses.

Joseph Bayly

#14. If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirk Kirkpatrick

#15. Dreams are what we have. All we have.

George R R Martin

#16. The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Ralph Abernathy

#17. Of course we must do it! It is a matter of spirit! And that's not to say it could have been done earlier, the infrastructure had to be installed, that's always messy, but now we are ready for the art of architecture, the spirit of it." He

Kim Stanley Robinson