Caitlin Doughty Quotes
Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.
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No man may make another free.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.
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What I do is doing movies and sharing movies.
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By year three, you get nicer, bigger trailers.
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Vegetarianism is a really important part of what we need to do to help the environment. The meat industry is really toxic to the environment. The cattle industry - besides the fact that there's a lot of cruel things happening - the manure is extremely toxic. We just need to pull back as a culture as much as we can.
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I've always thought of nuclear as something that's good for the environment. I worry about my polar bears.
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Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.
