"I understand that it is not when or how you die but how and if you truly were ever alive."

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Source : Jerri Nielsen, Maryanne Vollers (2002). “Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole”, Miramax Books

Jerri Nielsen

#Death Quotes #Alive Quotes

“Itâ€™s true that we canâ€™t help the circumstances weâ€™re born into and some of us start out in a much tougher place than other people. But just because we started there doesnâ€™t mean we have to end there.”
“The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.”
“So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.”
“Throughout the twentieth century and into the beginning of the twenty-first, the United States repeatedly used its military power, and that of its clandestine services, to overthrow governments that refused to protect American interests. Each time, it cloaked its intervention in the rhetoric of national security and liberation. In most cases, however, it acted mainly for economic reasons-specifically to establish, promote and defend the right of Americans to do business around the world without interference.”
“I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit.”
“And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.”
“It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act.”
“The time to begin most things is ten years ago.”

Source : "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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