"It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles." ― Muriel Spark Topic(s): Health More From Muriel Spark "To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion." "When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality." "Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that’s their order of importance." More In Health "I’ve always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream."― Sara Blakely "Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn’t want to change the health care they had; they didn’t want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship."― Fred Upton "With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county."― Bob Filner