"Cot-death is no longer a problem of clinical medicine, but is one of medical politics. We have long had the knowledge and experience as to how these unnecessary deaths can be avoided. In the meantime.. to prevent your offspring from becoming a SIDS statistic just make sure that its daily intake of ascorbate from conception on is sufficient. Under this regime the neonate is so robust and healthy that there has never been a case of SIDS among these ascorbate corrected infants, not even a case of respiratory distress during birth."
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"On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property."
"Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud."
"Our motto should be: let us make peace so that we can concentrate on the really important work that needs to be done. That is, alleviating the plight of the poor and the defenceless, for as long as most of humanity feels the pain of poverty we all remain prisoners."
"I watched, along with all of you, as the tens of thousands of our people stood patiently in long queues for many hours. Some sleeping on the open ground overnight waiting to cast this momentous vote."
"Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!""
"For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well."
"I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior."
"I always just focus on what my own goals are, and not what anybody else's goals for me are or their expectations. I just know that my family will always be supporting me and my friends and my coaches. And as long as I put in the hard work and know that I'm giving it my best effort, I will always be happy."
"You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself."
"It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made."
"It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again. But I believe you’re always as good as your potential. I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really count on. Fame will go by, and, so long, I’ve had you fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live."
"It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion."
"As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields."
"Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey."
"A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long."
"The days are long enough for those who use them."
"If you're in the U.S. and talk to someone on the phone who's in Iraq, you'll experience sound delay. It isn't long, but the sound has to go to a satellite and back, it's used for everything. I'm proud to have that be something I invented."
"A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes."
"I think as long as you're not being malicious and you're not hurting people then you should not be ashamed of what you do."