“Nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean wouldn't cure.”
The Moving Target (1949)
Source: The Drowning Pool
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 548 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
Πάλαι τὸ σιγᾶν φάρμακον βλάβης ἔχω.
“Nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean wouldn't cure.”
The Moving Target (1949)
Source: The Drowning Pool
“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.”
“There’s nothing wrong with most men’s egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can’t cure.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
Source: The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (1997), p. 14
“Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.”
Source: Fool's Errand
First inaugural address (January 20, 1993), Washington, D.C.
1990s
Letters from New York https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=dcYDAAAAQAAJ&rdid=book-dcYDAAAAQAAJ&rdot=1 (1841-1843), p. 206, Letter XXVIII, 29 Sep 1842
1840s, Letters from New York (1843)
Context: The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word LOVE. It is the divine vitality that produces and restores life. To each and every one of us it gives the power of working miracles, if we will.