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"The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy."
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"Every medicine is vain."
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"Morrie was in a wheelchair full-time now, getting used to helpers lifting him like a heavy sack from the chair to the bed and the bed to the chair."
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"MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive."
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"Why should I have been surprised?Hunters walk the forestwithout a sound.The hunter, strapped to his rifle,the fox on his feet of silk,the serpent on his empire of muscles-all move in a stillness,hungry, careful, intent.Just as the cancerentered the forest of my body,without a sound."
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"I love the imagery of struggle. I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient. Allow me to inform you, though, that when you sit in a room with a set of other finalists, and kindly people bring a huge transparent bag of poison and plug it into your arm, and you either read or don't read a book while the venom sack gradually empties itself into your system, the image of the ardent solider is the very last one that will occur to you. You feel swamped with passivity and impotence: dissolving in powerlessness like a sugar lump in water."
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"When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting."
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"Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura."
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"My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness."
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"There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in."
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"I felt Mr Willard had deserted me. I thought he must have planned it all along, but Buddy said No, his father simply couldn't stand the sight of sickness and especially his own son's sickness, because he thought all sickness was sickness of the will. Mr Willard had never been sick a day in his life."
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"The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true that when the rich are convinced they're going to be taxed more, they spend less. And when the top few percenters don't spend, there goes all your spending, because they account for half of all retail spending."
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"A lot of lawyers are set to tell me that it's not my fault I like to eat."
Mistake
"Why the hell do we make such a big deal out of things that shouldn't be a big deal?"
Hell
"My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well."
Family
"It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time."
Age
"I don't think business news is just for old white men with money."
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"I want to democratize business news."
Business
"The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas."
Time
"I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine."
Want
"I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it."
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