"You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place."

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Source : Mary Roach (2004). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

Mary Roach

#Cadavers Quotes #Persons Quotes

“To be honest, I still don't feel like I'm a representative or an ambassador for the sport.”
“I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.”
“The real reason to abolish departments like Energy and Education is not to promote efficiency, nor even to save taxpayersâ€™ money. It is that many agencies perform functions that are not Federal responsibility. The founders delegated to the Government only strictly defined authority in Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution. Search the entire Constitution, and you will find no authorization for Congress to subsidize the arts, finance and regulate education or invest tax revenues in energy research.”
“Stewart Davenport conscientiously and insightfully re-creates the world of the nineteenth-century political economists, who taught that the principles of international trade manifested, like the laws of biology and physics, the intelligent design of a Divine Creator.”
“If two people of the same sex fall in love and want to marry, why would our government stand in their way?”

Source : "Bob Casey Backs Gay Marriage" by Sabrina Siddiqui, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 01, 2013.
“I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth.”
“My first professional audition - god, I've never told anybody about this - was for a test commercial, I think it was for Xbox. It involved me getting kidnapped by a granny who wanted to play the Xbox. It was very weird and I definitely had no idea what I was doing. I actually got the gig. It wasn't a commercial; it was what directors did when they wanted to show the company what they would do with a commercial.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Whatever anyone says, I think the opposite will happen.”

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