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		Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tom Harkin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				J. K. Simmons 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Nancy Johnson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Nathan Fillion 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Nathan Sawaya 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I got hit with an octopus in Detroit one time. It was the most gross thing I've ever had happen. I got it right in the back of the neck; all the juice was coming down. It was awful. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Pat Burns 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Today, we're still loaded down - and, to some extent, embarrassed - by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Carl Sagan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Charles Kingsley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the twenty-first century, space scientists are setting Darwin in a grander cosmic context - probing the origins of Earth, stars, atoms and the universe itself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Martin Rees 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Beauty comes from the inside. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Kathy Ireland 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				J. C. Ryle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tom Harkin