Jacob M. Appel Quotes - Page 2

• I can handle being married for my money; it's being married for my life insurance that gives me pause.

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  Giving, Married, Give Me

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• A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.

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  People, Monkeys, Today

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• Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.

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  Worry, Anxiety, Physicians

  Jacob M. Appel (2014). “Phoning Home: Essays”, p.55, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, and equally by those we've never known at all - and that we too can change the world long after we've left it.

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  Long, World, Wonder

  Jacob M. Appel (2014). “Phoning Home: Essays”, p.23, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one of you cracks or stops existing.

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  Reflection, Trying, Dolls

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• Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

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  Country, Born, Convinced

  "The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up". Book by Jacob M. Appel, 2012.

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• Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress.

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  People, Body, Congress

  "A Culture of Liberty". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2009.

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• A free society, to be truly worthy of that name, owes healthy, competent individuals the right to end their lives on their own terms.

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  Names, Healthy, Individual

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• Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer.

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  Cancer, Recovery, Night

  "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing: The Struggle for the Legacy of Ruben Betancourt". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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• There is a fundamental difference, however, between asking to be permitted to keep a vegetative relative on costly machinery, and asking the taxpayers or society as a whole to pay for such machinery.

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  Differences, Asking, Fundamentals

  "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing: The Struggle for the Legacy of Ruben Betancourt". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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• Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or ink, the right to aid in dying is strikingly useless if nobody is willing to help.

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  Dying, Ink, Guarantees

  "Big Sky Dilemma: Must Doctors Help Their Patients Die?". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2009.

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• The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably arrive when a sitting justice lies in an intensive care unit, both unable to resign and unable to resume his or her duties.

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  Lying, Reality, Justice

  "Anticipating the Incapacitated Justice". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2009.

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• I am grateful that I have rights in the proverbial public square - but, as a practical matter, my most cherished rights are those that I possess in my bedroom and hospital room and death chamber.

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  Grateful, Squares, Rights

  "A Culture of Liberty". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2009.

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