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Quote by Terry Pratchett
I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a seriou

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer. – Terry Pratchett

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In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. – Terry Pratchett

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Art
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Ive always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated. – Terry Pratchett

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Imagination
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The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop. – Terry Pratchett

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Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves. – Tipper Gore

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Physiology is the stepchild of medicine. That is why Cinderella often turns out the queen. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctors office was full of portraits by Picasso. – Rita Rudner

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Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue. – John Ensign

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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. – Andre Malraux

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Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent. – JustinianI, Law Code, A.D. 535

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Every human being has… an attendant spirit…. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. – Lydia M. Child

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Im hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. Thats what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think thats from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter. – Jay-Z

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