"The situation around Terri Schiavo was a deeply held conflict over what to do if someone isn't going to return to consciousness or competence. Who will decide? Even there, where we had settled legal rules, we still had disagreement. We're torn about these things."

-- Ezekiel Emanuel

#Return Quotes #Consciousness Quotes #Conflict Quotes

“It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.”
“Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.”
“The environment is becoming so much a central concern, I see environmental concerns just bleeding into poetries all over the place. My hope is that we won't have these environmental poets tucked over here and everybody else doing cool stuff with language and consciousness elsewhere, but that all of it will become one thing.”
“And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.”
“To man, that was in th' evening made, Stars gave the first delight; Admiring, in the gloomy shade, Those little drops of light.”
“I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.”

Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press
“To say nothing of what you lose, lose, lose, are losing, man. You fool, you stupid fool ... You've even been insulated from the responsibility of genuine suffering ... Even the suffering you do endure is largely unnecessary. Actually spurious. It lacks the very basis you require of it for its tragic nature. You deceive yourself.”

Source : Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.317, Open Road Media
“To give Tinker Bell a voice for the first time in history is such an honor.”

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