Christiaan Barnard Quotes
The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.
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I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
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I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.
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I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.
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In short what I like to say is that the Big Bang says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged. It really has no bang in the Big Bang. It is a bangless theory, despite it's name.
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WHO has a country office in nearly every developing country, usually located close to the Ministry of Health. Staff in these offices need to do much more to help ministries of health strengthen their national health plans and strategies and then negotiate with development partners to support these priorities and follow these plans.
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This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.
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I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.
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The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.
