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On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for lightning to strike. Who was I, vowing calmly among all these necktied young men to steal life out of nature's jaws, every old time we got half a chance and a paycheck?... I could not accept the contract: that every child born human upon this earth comes with a guarantee of perfect health and old age clutched in its small fist.

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I prefer to remain anomalous.

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The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.

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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

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Downstream is always someone else's up.

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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

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Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

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Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn't.

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