"While the visible victims may draw the headlines and attract indignant protests from so-called "pro-life" organizations, the invisible victims are people like you and me who will suffer from diseases that are never cured because funds are being poured down a healthcare sieve in order to maintain permanently-unconscious bodies on complex and costly forms of life support."

-- Jacob M. Appel

#Organization Quotes #Order Quotes #People Quotes

“Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.”
“If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other, by discovering things about nature, by creating works of art. And thatâ€”in a way, although we are not the stars in a cosmic drama, if the only drama we're starring in is one that we are making up as we go along, it is not entirely ignoble that faced with this unloving, impersonal universe we make a little island of warmth and love and science and art for ourselves. That's not an entirely despicable role for us to play.”

Source : "The Faith of Scientists: In Their Own Words". Book edited by Nancy K. Frankenberry, 2008.
“The quicker humanity advances, the more important it is to be the one who deals the first blow.”

Source : Said to Leon Goldensohn, June 06, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, p. 151, 2004.
“Simply put, the best teachers are the ones you work your tail off for because in the end you just don't want them to think any less of you. You want and need their approval.”

Source : Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.14, Penguin
“The only thing that happens overnight is recognition. Not talent.”
“If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.”
“I like skateboarding. I'm here on this planet to skateboard; I feel this is what God wants me to do. I just live it. I get hurt all the time. I break bones. It's just all part of the process.”
“You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think.”

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