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And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel. ↗

— Richard Dooling

#aggressive #back #care #cruel #domestic

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#being #brought #detail #entertained #familiar

If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down. ↗

— Jimmy Doolittle

#down #fight #instead #neck #prepared

There are some liberals eager to embrace a culture void of morals, but the majority of America is made up of honest, hard-working families who turned out in droves to protect the traditional way of life. ↗

— John Doolittle

#culture #droves #eager #embrace #families

The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story. ↗

— Tom Shippey

#fiction #tolkien #tom-shippey #writing #freedom

The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy where our government has been giving tickets, essentially, to people who enter illegally and then letting them go and show up of their own volition. ↗

— John Doolittle

#ago #been #bill #catch #end

It is hard for the old slaveholding spirit to die. But die it must.... ↗

— Sujourner Truth

#slavery #freedom

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#already #away #borders #closer #conquest

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#actual #brought #curious #experience #facts

I never wanted to see another quiz show. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

#i #never #quiz #see #show