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As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#alcohol #barriers #celebrate #congress #down

I wasn't prepared to get a mammogram until I was 40 years old, like I'd been told. I never in my wildest dreams expected anything to be wrong. ↗

— Giuliana Rancic

#been #dreams #expected #get #i

I’ve been doing this a long time, and I’ve come to learn that predictions don’t mean much. Too much lies outside the realm of medical knowledge. A lot of what happens next comes down to you and your specific genetics, your attitude. No, there’s nothing we can do to stop the inevitable, but that’s not the point. The point is that you should try to make the most of the time you have left. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#inspirational #attitude

Whether you want to admit it or not, people begin to judge you the minute you walk in the door. ↗

— Bill Rancic

#begin #door #judge #minute #people

So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values. ↗

— Bill Rancic

#bunch #create #drama #fake #family

I never thought my marriage could be stronger, or I could be closer to Bill. We prayed on our own, but now we prayed together and you'll never know how much that means until you do it. ↗

— Giuliana Rancic

#closer #could #how #i #know

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist. ↗

— Bernie Worrell

#concert pianist #me #mother #pianist #wanted

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#code #culture #ethics #every #needs

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#background #himself #his #however #man

Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer? ↗

— Roman Payne

#books #escape #flame #heroic #heroism