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"I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon."
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"The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications."
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"The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants."
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"We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American."
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"Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it."
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"I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended."
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"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."
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"Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care."
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"To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?"
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"'Early stages' is when the cancer is completely contained within the prostate. If it is detected when the cancer is entirely in the gland, the chance for full recovery is at its highest."
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"Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the core of the medical approach is that you try to identify pathologies, which are subsystems within the human body or the larger system that are having undesirable consequences."
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"In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up."
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"Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen."
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"I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational."
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"I love superconductors."
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"In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists."
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"I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors."
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"My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names."
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"I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works."
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"And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up."
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"I don't have a strong interest in history."
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