"In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'"

-- Abraham Verghese

#Cancer Quotes #Taken Quotes #Knives Quotes

“The single greatest demotivator of a team is having members who are not carrying their load.”
“The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.' 'And that's why you don't fight,'I say. She turns to me sharply. 'To preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.”
“No man easily admits that he is afraid.”

Source : Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.627, Ballantine Books
“That strange, twisted, torn love. That conflict between what your heart knows is right and what your mind is told is right.”
“For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to be gained by talking to them about liberty, their unknown god. And so much are they enchanted by the words liberty, freedom, and such like, that the wise can go to the poor, rob them of what little they have, dismiss them with a hearty kick, and win their hearts and their votes for ever, if only they will assure them that the treatment which they have received is called liberty.”

Source : Arthur Machen (2016). “The Terror: Machen's Collection”, p.37, VM eBooks
“I believe that if you go and ask a chief executive of a Goldman Sachs or a BP, and they answer you honestly...they want monopolies, they want government subsidies, they want preferences - they're not interested in free markets.”

Source : "The West Should Fear the Growth of State Capitalism". Interview with James Quinn, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 10, 2010.
“The subject comes first, the medium second.”
“Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.”

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