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Strengthening our national network of Community Health Centers - one of the best kept secrets in medicine - can help counter America's growing access problem.

~Danny K. Davis

Topics: Access America Best Centers Community Counter Growing Health Help Kept Medicine National Network Our Problem Secrets Strengthening

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My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.

~David Guterson

Topics: Book Counter Runs Spirit Traditional

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Dad worked in the same shop, behind the same counter, five or six days a week, for 38 years, and hated it.

~David Thewlis

Topics: Behind Counter Dad Days Five Hated Same Shop Six Six Days Week Worked Years

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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

~Denis Diderot

Topics: Authority Counter Courts Decisions Form Law Long Long Run Never Printed Run Should

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I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

~Dick Gregory

Topics: Counter Eleven Finally Integrated Restaurant Waited Wanted White Years

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When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

~Dinah Shore

Topics: Afternoon Been Could Counter Ever Farmers Father Five Four General Had Leave Placed Saturday Sing Store Think Until Up

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I'm not as athletic as some guys, so I have to counter that with a tremendous brain that thinks the game.

~Draymond Green

Topics: Athletic Brain Counter Game Guys Some Thinks Tremendous

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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

~Edith Hamilton

Topics: Counter Facts Go Human Human Nature Nature Theories

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I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.

~Edward Norton

Topics: Actually Always Angry Because Come Contradictions Counter Emotions Express Fascinated Feeling Freeze Frightened Like Often Out People Responses Tend Themselves Volume Way Ways Which Wonderful

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As much as football can cause war, it can also cause peace. Football is a kind of Geiger counter of civilisation, or a catalyst for good as well as bad.

~Elfriede Jelinek

Topics: Also Bad Catalyst Cause Civilisation Counter Football Good Kind Much Peace War Well

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