"As someone who has spent many years marveling at the brilliant and painstaking work of the doctors, scientists and researchers at St. Jude, I can attest firsthand to the bone-deep commitment these men and women have made in their fight against disease. They are at it around the clock - every hour of the day, every day of the year."

-- Marlo Thomas

#Commitment Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Doctors Quotes

“You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.”
“As far as I know, most organizations are avoiding population issues because they're politically frightened by the charge that comes from some proponents of immigration that if you oppose the immigration policy we have now, you're a racist.. There is no way in the world we can forge a sustainable society without stabilizing the population. ... There's no practical way of stabilizing the population of the U.S. without reducing the immigration rate. When do we decide we have to do something, or do we wait until things are as bad here as they are in the countries people want to leave?”
“My curiosity is not a choice. It's always been part of me. I think of it as a vital organ.”

Source : Lizz Winstead (2012). “Lizz Free or Die: Essays”, p.34, Penguin
“She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.”
“Things that annoy me end up fuelling my ideas.”
“In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.”
“No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do”
“How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?”

Source : Ernest J. Gaines (2004). “A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel”, p.159, Vintage

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