Don't think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a total stranger alive. It's really a total stranger giving up almost all of themselves to keep part of you alive.


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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea.
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The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must b...
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Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat. (Death levels sceptre and the law.)
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Tell me, shepherds, have you seen My Flora pass this way? In shape and feature Beauty's queen,...
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When all else fails, duck. It's not practical, but it can be momentarily comforting.
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Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, The very Life of Lif...
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The rise of every man he loved to trace, Up to the very pod O! And, in baboons, our parent rac...
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This picture, plac'd the busts between Gives Satire all its strength; Wisdom and Wit are littl...
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The diamond's virtues well might grace The epigram, and both excel In brilliancy in smallest s...
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Acon his right, Leonilla her left eye Doth want; yet each in form, the gods out-vie. Sweet boy...
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All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights.
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Huzzaed out of my seven senses.
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Thee is a skeleton on every house.
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Let the "Tribune" put all this in its pipe and smoke it.
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To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly. [Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.]
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Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.
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Say, Bacchus, why so placid? What can there be In commune held by Pallas and by thee? Her ple...
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I, Phoebus, sang those songs that gained so much renown I, Phoebus, sang them; Homer only wrote th...
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The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the streets, on the roads, and in the markets, instructs t...
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The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs.
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I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so...
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Sacred to the memory of printing, the art preservative of all arts. This was first invented about ...
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I pray the prayer the Easterners do, May the peace of Allah abide with you; Wherever you stay,...
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O God, if in the day of battle I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me.
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Doubt not but God who sits on high, Thy secret prayers can hear; When a dead wall thus cunning...
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