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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.


Jack Kevorkian

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RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Four to five thousand people is the target.
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JULIO GALVEZ …when people are waiting, they are bad judges of time, and every half minute seems like five.
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WILLIAM PURKEY One in six planes sold this year will go to China. Next year that will be one in five.
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ELLEN DEGENERES Nobody really cares about what other people think anymore; they're all about themselves.
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ELLEN DEGENERES Every year until I die. I'd play every game here.
DAVIS DREWISKE Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
DAVE BARRY I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.
LYNN BARBER Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
UNKNOWN Everybody wants to go to heaven; but nobody wants to die.
ANONYMOUS Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
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SAINT AUGUSTINE Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
MALACHY MCCOURT Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
CINDY CLABOUGH Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
CARRIE FISHER Bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
JOANNA WEAVER Nobody cares about technology anymore. They're buying solutions to problems. That's the reality.
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JACK STRAW In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. L...
JACK STEINBERGER In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the famil...
JACK STEINBERGER I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
JACK STEINBERGER I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.
JACK STEINBERGER