Top 48 Jacob M. Appel Quotes
#1. If freedom means anything at all, it is the right to primacy in regard to sexuality, reproduction, medical care and death.
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#2. Now I know how to make it as a pedophile. Forget lollypops. Antarctic wildlife is the ticket.
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#3. Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing - and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life.
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#4. Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress.
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#5. I insert the bevel and draw back the plunger. I know that the syringe contains more than sodium chloride-that even as the toxic contents fill my fathers veins, he is sharing with me his final gift: the horror and thrill of saving lives.
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#6. 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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#8. That was the heart of the problem: every choice made sense from some vantage point.
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#9. Much as we do not permit convicted pedophiles to teach kindergarten or convicted hijackers to board airplanes, common sense dictates that individuals who have been imprisoned for plotting violence against abortion clinics should never again be permitted anywhere near such facilities.
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#10. I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing ...
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#11. If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises ...
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#12. I would prefer to believe that a market in fetal organs would empower women to use their reproductive capabilities to their own economic advantage.
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#13. 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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#14. He had a knack for expressing sober what most men only dared say drunk.
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#15. You can measure a man's sorrow, and the world's, in the number of stories that perish unheard.
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#16. Life is about trade-offs," said the lunatic ... "The difference between happy people and unhappy people is that happy people accept the trade-offs and unhappy people complain about them. Personally, I prefer to be happy.
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#18. Always warm up the audience with a joke ... If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it's a joke ...
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#19. Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a human being.
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#20. Nobody loses weight eating anyplace with laminated menus.
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#21. Nixon's offences had been so long in the past, so much part of a different era that he now seemed like some lovable but bigoted uncle you tolerated at Christmas and Thanksgiving.
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#22. If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.
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#23. 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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#24. Nothing spices up one's sex life like having a partner.
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#25. That was the one advantage of growing old - it let you be nasty with impunity.
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#26. The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all.
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#27. If history judged nations by their pet theories, no one could ever doubt that Americans were creative.
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#28. One thing led to another. That was the only way to explain how Arnold Brinkman, who considered both professional sports and young children unjustifiable, had ended up at Yankee Stadium with a nine-year-old boy.
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#29. Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.
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#30. Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad.
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#31. An American man endowed with sufficient wealth can purchase anything, but an American woman endowed with sufficient beauty does not need to.
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#32. 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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#33. I can handle being married for my money; it's being married for my life insurance that gives me pause ...
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#34. Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.
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#35. Nothing sells tombstones like a Girl Scout in uniform.
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#36. This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.
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#37. Even a poor tour guide is entitled to some happiness.
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#38. Be optimistic. Always put on clean underwear if you're going on a date.
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#39. 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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#41. 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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#42. 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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#43. The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop.
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#44. Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiting, and the key to happiness is finding the one person with whom you share the same internal chronometer.
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#45. 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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#46. 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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#47. The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him.
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