"Maybe thatâ€™s why Iâ€™ve made it as far as I have â€“ 2,521 miles. If I ran to a doctor every time I got a little cyst or abrasion Iâ€™d still be in Nova Scotia. Or else Iâ€™d never have started. Iâ€™ve seen people in so much pain. The little bit of pain Iâ€™m going through is nothing. They canâ€™t shut it off, and I canâ€™t shut down every time I feel a little sore."

-- Terry Fox

#Pain Quotes #Doctors Quotes #People Quotes

“The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.”
“I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today”
“But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying the analogy of an art with hard and fast rules to a creative process”

Source : Isocrates (1962). “Isocrates”, Loeb Classical Library
“Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest.... But, in its less rigorous, popular forms, religion is about as intellectually challenging as the average self-help book. (Like personal development literature, mass market books about spirituality and religion celebrate emotionalism and denigrate reason. They elevate the "truths" of myths and parables over empiricism.) In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it.”
“I'm sad but excited for the future.”

Source : Facebook post, www.facebook.com. January 30, 2013.
“I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.”

Source : "Jane Pauley tackles reinvention". The SecondAct Interview, blogs.reuters.com. August 16, 2011.
“To the girls that gave me a hard time in high school. I want to say thank you. This is a victory for all the nerds out there.”
“I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable.”

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