"Our tradition in this country has not been to deny health information to interested individuals when they claim that they can handle it and are willing to pay for the cost of getting it."

-- Robert Shapiro

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“And I wish to thank you as well, Royce." He was puzzled. "For what?" "For reminding me that anyone, no matter what they've done, can find redemption if they seek it.”

Source : Michael J Sullivan (2012). “Percepliquis”, p.409, Hachette UK
“Watching something grow is good for morale. It helps us believe in life.”
“It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.”
“Nothing drives your opponents more crazy than being utterly reasonable. And nothing makes demonizing or delegitimizing your opponents easier than letting them shriek unreasonable things for you. The Republicans need to get back to being the party that elicits unreasonable shrieking from their opponents. Not the other way around.”
“If we die, do not mourn for us. This is a risky business we're in, and we accept those risks. The space program is too valuable to this country to be halted for too long if a disaster should ever happen.”
“The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it â€” and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.”

Source : Upton Sinclair (2005). “The Profits of Religion”, p.24, Cosimo, Inc.
“The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish.”

Source : Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.13, Duke University Press
“Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.”

Source : Gilbert Ryle (2009). “The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.5, Routledge

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