We got this letter on behalf of the Alabama Organ Center that said that josh was a multiple organ donor.
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LARRY LATHAM Don't take your organs to heaven with you. Heaven knows we need them here.
~AUTHOR UNKNOWN Don't think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a total stranger alive. It's re...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN We've chose the Transplant Resource Center, an organ donation center, to be the recipient of this ye...
MIKE STAMPER I don't understand why anyone wouldn't be an organ donor, because you don't need your organs after y...
TIFFANY TRIPP I am not an organ donor, but I once gave an old piano to the Salvation Army.
UNKNOWN One organ and tissue donor can save up to seven lives and enhance the lives of up to 75 others.
SUE WILSON Very astute, Harry, but the mouth organ was only ever a mouth organ." - Albus Dumbledore
J.K. ROWLING The most wonderful thing you can do is give the gift of sight, ... Talk with your family about becom...
BENJAMIN HARRIS On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm ...
JODI PICOULT A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after...
WES MONTGOMERY There really isn't an organ in the body that is safe from the effects of obesity - and the liver is ...
DAVID HASLAM As a child, I had no interest in science whatsoever - then I started writing and recognized how rele...
LEE GUTKIND It was the custom for organ builders to take an old organ and enlarge it at a later time,
HANS DAVIDSSON Eight million people carry organ donor cards in Britain and they need to have full confidence that t...
ALAN MILBURN More organ inferiority he feels more exercise he does; more exercise he does more organ inferiority ...
DR HITESH C SHETH I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right pia...
BENMONT TENCH I think people who have all kinds of debilitating mobility issues will benefit from robotic augmenta...
JASON SILVA The rich male organ is a hollow addictive tube that when excited or angry can become unbelievably su...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) My brain? That´s my second favourite organ.
WOODY ALLEN I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was tell...
EMO PHILLIPS This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ...
OSHO I thank the family for the organ donation. I got my sight back.
DUANE DOWNING The organ is on a downhill trend. It's following the harpsichord.
CHARLES TERRY There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So...
INA MAY GASKIN With this technique, we can detect the very, very early stages of organ rejection in a non-invasive ...
CHIEN HO That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simpl...
PLATO The expressiveness of this organ is beyond belief, ... There's a vocal quality to the sound that you...
HANS DAVIDSSON Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.
NICOLE KRAUSS ...the heart is an organ of fire.
MICHAEL ONDAATJE On behalf of the people of Alabama and Childersburg, I welcome you here, ... Remember every time you...
BOB RILEY The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le...
GARY F EVANS... Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I ...
JOE MURRAY When a patient does get an organ from another person, it comes from a different body. It has differe...
ANTHONY ATALA Strange medical news from Pakistan: A man had a successful organ transplant with a dog. They gave th...
CRAIG KILBORN The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is...
JOHN GREEN Theoretically, with this antifreeze protein we might be able to store an organ at 21 degrees Fahrenh...
LAURIE GRAHAM That whole thing was a setback, and we went a whole year without any singles, but we had the other s...
BRAD MATES The human voice is the organ of the soul.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom...
BILLY PRESTON Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the...
ANTHONY ATALA In Scotland, 13 patients have died in each of the last two years and many more have had to be remove...
ANDY KERR Theoretically, with this antifreeze protein we might be able to store an organ at minus 6 degrees (2...
LAURIE GRAHAM You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.
WOODY ALLEN Terri was almost a week into her death process, ... The doctors have said that introducing hydration...
GEORGE FELOS O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might.
RICHARD LLEWELLYN My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
BIBLE Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
We decide to go out walking the wh...
TEGAN QUIN You’re playing the creepy vibe a little hard,” I said. “Might as well go for broke, put on a b...
JIM BUTCHER The problem with that is there is just no telling when you would get a matching organ.
KATHY HOLLEMAN I have a meanness inside of me, real as an organ.
GILLIAN FLYNN He let us know about organ donation and how he felt about that, so we kind of knew these things befo...
KAREN BRASWELL For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, ...
C.S. LEWIS And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
BIBLE Organ transplants are best left to the professionals
NANCY CARTWRIGHT In this cluster of three confirmed cases of West Nile virus infection, with the possibility that the...
JAMES HUGHES I cut 'Diamond in My Crown' in my home in Georgia, because I wanted to use an old 1848 pump ...
PATTY LOVELESS [T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.
HILARY MANTEL Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for sever...
JOHN PEREZ I'm a sucker for a guy with a big organ.
MARC ACITO In the political confusion and the torrid heat, I convinced myself that Madrid was the world's s...
LEONORA CARRINGTON My brain? That's my second favorite organ.
WOODY ALLEN We must remember that increasing living donation alone will not save enough lives. We must continue ...
PATRICIA ADAMS Organ donors are the real heroes. I'm here today because of one. I'm forever grateful, forever humbl...
CHRIS KLUG Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.
ALICE WEAVER FLAHERTY I have stitched life into me like a rare organ
SYLVIA PLATH We are doing an organ symphony, and we need that instrument. First Presbyterian Church has one of th...
CEO M. WADE KELLEY To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Few people know that the chamber of diseases that is the staircase to a doctors progress is better k...
APURVA GAGLANI According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and kno...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the p...
JOSEPH MURRAY I needed a space suit the way a pig needs a pipe organ.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It was amazing. I can't believe that something like this can be done. You hear about it and I know h...
DAWN HINES Aging is one of the most visual diseases on the planet and includes things that we all know like wri...
LIZ PARRISH There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.
FRANCIS ARINZE The use of fetuses as organ and tissue donors is a ticking time bomb of bioethics.
DR. ARTHUR CAPLAN Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C.S. LEWIS Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. LEWIS Fuck them all. I ought to have that tattooed on my forehead, for all the times I've thought it. Usua...
JODI PICOULT The Karen personality was created when Jo was nine and her mother said once too often, "Why can't yo...
JOAN FRANCES CASEY I hope more people decide to become organ donors.
DONNA REED She was a very, very religious person. She played piano and organ at her church at one time.
CONRAD COLEMAN We actually started in 1962 under the name 'Johnny and the Sting Rays'. It was me on guitar, Bob Tho...
DON SCHOSSOW They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
BIBLE I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in...
MARK TWAIN Hector is a super gifted person and an amazing organ player, ... It kind of blows your mind when you...
ANN ANDREWS This was the first complete game we've played this season. Josh got ahead on a lot of his pitches an...
DAVID LAWHON One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before...
LOREN EISELEY The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.
PATRICK SOON-SHIONG I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice.
ALAN PRICE If organ size is not regulated properly, you have cancer.
DUOJIA PAN Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Don't you ever wonder why we say we're giving someone our heart and not our liver or some other orga...
JOY MANISCALCO You can expect fast, barreling punk songs. We have alt-country songs. We have a song that combines j...
DREW BENTON Evolvement of Organs may be based on the interests, objectives and necessity of each DNA, according ...
DEVASKI The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves t...
JOHN STUART MILL The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL Of another lie "You said that you will be with me...", "Everything what I want I will get..", but???...
DEYTH BANGER The primary sex organ is the mind. The best foreplay is a warm and loving conversation.
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KAREN BLACK I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
KAREN BLACK I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little...
KAREN BLACK I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dea...
KAREN BLACK I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.
KAREN BLACK If you can write it, I can be it.
KAREN BLACK When I wrote my stories in elementary school, I signed them all 'Karen E. Bender' with the s...
KAREN BENDER You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You do...
KAREN BENDER At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in peop...
KAREN BENDER Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, fra...
KAREN BENDER My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my s...
KAREN BENDER When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmoth...
KAREN BENDER Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
KAREN BENDER What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?
KAREN BENDER My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but excit...
KAREN BENDER It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.
KAREN BENDER I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' T...
KAREN BENDER I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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