"Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer."

-- Karl Kraus

#Cancer Quotes #Decision Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Since we're living with antibiotic drugs and chlorinated water and antibacterial soap and all these factors in our contemporary lives that I'd group together as a 'war on bacteria,' if we fail to replenish [good bacteria], we won't effectively get nutrients out of the food we're eating.”
“In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.”
“Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.”
“Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest,”
“I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.”
“I would rather die fighting for what is right, than live passively amidst all that is wrong.”
“New forms of media - first movies, then television, talk radio and now the Internet - tend to challenge traditional codes of conduct. They flout convention, shake up the status quo and sometimes provoke outrage.”
“When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.”

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