P. D. James Quotes
If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
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If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.
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That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
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It's what I do best - pry into people's business and mind their business. I can't help myself. I can't even go through the grocery line of the grocery store without talking to people and then giving them my opinion.
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In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.
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I've never had a drink of alcohol or any drug in my life.
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Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.
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If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.
