"I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?"
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"What does not contain love must contain an illusion."
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"We need to put a price on carbon, and that's what cap-and-trade does and that's also what a CO2 tax does. As long as our current valuation in the marketplace tells us every minute of every day that it's perfectly all right to dump 90 million tons of global warming into the thin atmosphere surrounding the planet every 24 hours as if that atmosphere is an open sewer, then the individual actions are not going to solve the problem."
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"Mother Nature does not do bailouts."
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"For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries."
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"The only thing that I know is that, growing up, I came across stumbling blocks, and I always said to myself, 'If I ever get into a position to do something about this, I would like to, so that somebody does not deal with what I went through."
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"It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication."
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"Every time I set foot on that trail, I feel grateful for the PCTA for doing the work it does to protect and preserve it"
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"A chief does not hurry."
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"Absence of failure does not constitute success."
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"That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever"
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"I think the socialist movement, by removing many, many people from grinding stagnation and poverty and overwork, does enable people not just to lead better lives but to be better people."
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"Did we not aid the grisly Taliban to achieve and hold power? Yes indeed 'we' did. Well, does that not double or triple our responsibility to remove them from power?"
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"If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does."
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"I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny."
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"I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does."
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"If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture."
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"I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture."
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"Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens."
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"Proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is the immediate cause of that phenomenon. It must still be established that when this condition is removed, the phenomen will no longer appear."
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