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In 2001, Republicans used reconciliation to pass President Bush's $1.35 trillion tax cut that mainly benefited the wealthy.


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BERNIE SIEGEL A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also co...
BERNIE SIEGEL There is survival behavior, and doctors need to learn from patients who do not die when they are sup...
BERNIE SIEGEL I believe the reason we sleep is not just to allow our body to rest but that it is to allow this inn...
BERNIE SIEGEL The doctor I would want for myself or for anyone else I cared about would be one who understands tha...
BERNIE SIEGEL The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who plea...
BERNIE SIEGEL Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doi...
BERNIE SIEGEL If I were rewriting 'Love, Medicine & Miracles,' I might consider changing its title to ...
BERNIE SIEGEL If God had made a perfect world, it would be a magic trick, not creation, with no meaning or place f...
BERNIE SIEGEL Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or wha...
BERNIE SIEGEL You can survive tough situations and even turn them to your advantage by acting as if you are the pe...
BERNIE SIEGEL The question is not, will there be difficulties and threats to our existence, but how will we deal w...
BERNIE SIEGEL True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomp...
BERNIE SIEGEL If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, fo...
BERNIE SIEGEL We're all here for a limited amount of time, and life is difficult - not unfair, but difficult. ...
BERNIE SIEGEL An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
BERNIE SIEGEL When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I'll leave...
BERNIE SIEGEL Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day beco...
BERNIE SIEGEL There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger ...
BERNIE MAC Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child o...
BERNIE SIEGEL I think that this is going to help change that perception in people's minds and that we're going to ...
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