"Most death now happens in hospitals. It's been medicalized. It happens away from where we deal with it directly. And that's a huge change. At the beginning of the 20th century most people died at home. Death was much more common."

-- Joan Didion

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“Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like... But in the end, who does it benefit? No one. The truth is, it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen”
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
“People want to think that staying in shape costs a lot of money. They couldn't be more wrong. It doesn't cost anything to walk. And it's probably a lot cheaper to go to the corner store and buy vegetables than take a family out for fast food.”
“When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology,”
“By their own follies they perished, the fools.”
“I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.”
“Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.”
“A real possibility now exists for a Government that is not led by either Fine Gael or Fianna FÃ¡il”

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