Meghan O'Rourke Quotes

My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.

Meghan O'Rourke

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The only difficult thing is learning to recognise the interesting bits from those millions of moments life provides you with every day and writing down those snippets.

John Grant

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Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Jeff Bezos

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The advertising industry needs to keep evolving.

Steve Stoute

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Tea Party people know that I stood against the Wall Street scam from Day One, that I voted against TARP, that I voted against repealing Glass-Steagall Act that kept these guys under some control.

Russ Feingold

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You always love playing in finals at any tournament. The grand slams and stuff like that are obviously the priorities but any titles go on your record.

Lleyton Hewitt

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The soul is joined to and is separated from the body. Therefore, the soul is corporeal.

Chrysippus

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I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.

William Shirley

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Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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The abrupt and sudden death of my wife has taken a severe emotional and psychic toll on me. On top of that, some people have stooped so low that they have tried to use my personal tragedy for their personal benefit.

Shashi Tharoor

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After he retired, Dad worked at my uncle's boat company, a camp for kids, and eventually became County Commissioner for a term. He is known around town, works at the Food Pantry my mother helped start, and is a very serious member of Kiwanis.

Rick Tumlinson

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It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.

Mark Roberts

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I've harassed pediatricians and nurses, demanded extra conferences with preschool teachers, contacted speech therapists and occupational therapists over delays other mothers probably wouldn't have noticed, stressed over magnet school applications three years before they're due.

Kim Brooks

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