"And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel."

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Source : "Op-Ed: Cut Health Care Spending On The Elderly". "Talk of the Nation" with Rebecca Roberts, www.npr.org. August 17, 2009.

Richard Dooling

#Eight Quotes #Pieces Quotes #Care Quotes

“Lady Liberty and Sarah Palin are lit by the same torch.”

Source : "Sarah Palin and Joe Miller unite for Alaska rally", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2010.
“At times they don't like you to kick them and they feel you're not allowed to kick them.”
“The basis of the Juche Idea is that man is the master of all things and the decisive factor in everything.”

Source : "On Juche in Our Revolution". Book by Kim Il-sung, Volume 2, 1977.
“I've had watermelon hair where I had pink with green tips. From the age of 13 to about 19 or 20, I never had my real hair color.”
“Everything you draw is influenced. It's like yogurt. You need a little bit to start the next batch.”
“The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.”
“Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.”
“Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.”

Source : John Ford (1831). “The Dramatic Works of John Ford: The lover's melancholy. The broken heart. Perkin Warbeck”, p.63

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