#rates

Before we even consider expanding Medicare, or another program based on its rates, we must reform our Medicare payment system so that it rewards value, not volume, and doesn't disadvantage states like Minnesota that provide high-quality care in an efficient way. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#based #before #care #consider #disadvantage

Inherited Will, The Destiny of the Age, and The Dreams of the People. As long as people continue to pursue the meaning of Freedom, these things will never cease to be!" - Gol D. Roger ↗

— Eiichiro Oda

#dreams #freedom #future #luffy #one-piece

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts. ↗

— Patrick McHenry

#been #cuts #generations #lowest #marginal

I think we need to have competitive tax rates in order to create jobs in this country. And I think it should be fair. ↗

— Kristi Noem

#country #create #fair #i #i think

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well? ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#life #meaning-of-life #plato #socrates #unexamined-life

There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty. ↗

— Cedric Richmond

#correlation #crime #lot #poverty #rates

Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most temperamental costar I've had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn't believe. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#believe #caribbean #casts #films #had

Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#capable #crime #day #dry #evaporates

Well, if pirates are bad, And vampires are worse, Then I pray that as long as I be That though I sing of Vampirates I never one shall see. Yea, if pirates are danger And vampires are death, I'll extend my prayer for thee- That thine eyes never see a Vampirate ...and they never lay a hand on thee ↗

— Justin Somper

#vampirates #vampire #death

She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was very taken with this notion, and later on she folded the blankets on her bunk in a seamanlike way, and put her possessions in the closet in a seamanlike way, and used 'stow' instead of 'tidy' for the process of doing so. After two days at sea, Lyra decided that this was the life for her. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#pirates #sail #sailing #sea #seafaring