"As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified."

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Source : "Years of Minutes: The Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes". Book by Andy Rooney, 2004.

#Data Quotes #Doctors Quotes #Wish Quotes

“When a faith-healer commands God to perform a miracle, in the absence of a prayer that says, 'Thy will be done,' it is, as far as I am concerned, the most rank form of arrogance . . . The faith-healer Bosworth once said that faith makes God act. If you follow that line of reasoning God is in His heaven, but Bosworth rules the world!”
“To simplify things down to their real essence, whenever things go wrong in our lives, whenever our plans go awry and the things we took for granted suddenly disappear, we have a very simple choice. We can either succumb to despair and assume the attitude of the put upon victim, powerless to change our fate, or we can decide to turn the tragedy into an opportunity.”
“To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.”

Source : "Matter and Memory".
“I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I don't really have hobbies. Ð¡ombat arts was a hobby that became a career.”
“The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. Take joy.”
“Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever.”
“The objective of a referee is not to get mentioned. I tell a lot of young referees that not being mentioned is king. If you can achieve that, that then it has been a pretty good game.”

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