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• He was breathing, which is always a good sign. As gently as I could I picked him up, placed him on the towel, wrapped it around him, and put him in my car. I drove to the emergency clinic, the cat purring on the seat beside me. “What’s his name?” the young man at the front desk asked as my towel and cat were whisked to a back room. “Uh…John Tomkins,” I said. “That’s different,” the receptionist said, writing it down. “He was a pirate,” I said. “I mean Tomkins. I don’t know about the cat. (...)

  Josh Lanyon

  Writing, Mean, Cat

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• In the pit of red You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness But the jewel you lost was blue.

  Ted Hughes

  Blue, Jewels, Pits

  Ted Hughes (1998). “Birthday letters”, Wheeler Pub Inc

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• I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.

  Idris Elba

  Cousin, Talking, Nurse

  "The god in Idris Elba". Interview with Afua Hirsch, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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• In the Netherlands now, I imagine it's legal to marry your own children. Get them pregnant, and you can abort your unborn grandbabies in a free clinic that used to be a church.

  David Sedaris

  Children, Church, Netherlands

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• One of the women at the clinic had remarked dryly that Harrow's personal magnetism not only affected men, women and children but also extended to armoires, assorted chairs and the nearby goldfish in a bowl.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Children, Men, Goldfish

  Lisa Kleypas (2008). “Seduce Me at Sunrise”, p.78, Macmillan

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• Are you a censor? Do you tell people not to say “girl”? Shame on you! If nothing offends you, you’re a saint or you’re psychotic. If a few things offend you, deal with them--fairly. If you’re often offended by things, you’re probably a self-righteous asshole and it’s too bad you weren’t censored yourself--by your mother in an abortion clinic.

  William T. Vollmann

  Girl, Mother, Self

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• My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.

  Tiger Woods

  Sports, Dad, Father

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• You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love turn to hate at the fringes of any belief system.

  Chris Crutcher

  Christian, Hate, White

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• I left the clinic in a daze that had nothing to do with my head injury. Clear up in a week or so? How could Dr. Olendzki speak so lightly about this? I was going to look like a mutant for Christmas and most of the ski trip. I had a black eye. A freaking black eye. And my mother had given it to me.

  Richelle Mead

  Mother, Eye, Black

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.48, Penguin

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• Did you ever hear one of those corny, positive messages on someone's answering machine? 'Hi, it's a great day and I'm out enjoying it right now. I hope you are too. The thought for the day is share the love.' Beep. 'Uh, yeah, this is the VD clinic. Speaking of being positive, your test is back. Stop sharing the love.'

  Andy Rooney

  Being Positive, Great Day, Machines

  "Curmudgeon Explains the Throne Speech" by Bill Tieleman, www.straight.com. February 17, 2005.

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• When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Attitude, Fighting, Poison

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• I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

  Karl Jaspers

  Men, Medicine, Long

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• A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.

  Alveda King

  Children, Abortion, Majority

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• Everyone knows now how early a fetus becomes a baby. Women who have been pregnant have seen their babies on ultrasounds. They know that there is a terrible truth to those horrific pictures the anti-choice fanatics hold up in front of abortion clinics.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Baby, Ultrasounds, Abortion

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• When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.

  Ron Wyden

  Senior, Years, Income

  "Preserving the Medicare Guarantee: Why I’ve Been Working with Paul Ryan" by Sen. Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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• In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.

  Hanna Rosin

  Girl, Couple, Boys

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• A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.

  Stephen Fry

  Regret, Numbers, Salary

  Stephen Fry (2014). “The Hippopotamus”, p.10, Soho Press

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• Daytime television, you can tell who’s watching by the three kinds of commercials. Either it’s clinics for drying out drunks. Or it’s law firms who want to settle injury suits. Or it’s schools offering mail-order vocational degrees to make you a bookkeeper. A private detective. Or a locksmith. If you’re watching daytime television, this is your new demographic. You’re a drunk. Or a cripple. Or an idiot.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  School, Offering, Order

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• The need for this clinic is clear to me, to the veterans who are currently forced to travel hours to receive care, and even to the Veterans Administration that itself identified creation of a clinic in this part of our state as a priority to be completed by 2006.

  Doc Hastings

  Travel, Priorities, Needs

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• The road to a clinic goes through the pathologic museum and not through the apothecary's shop.

  Sir William Gull, 1st Baronet

  Museums, Medicine, Drug

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• Sharon Needles. Did I meet you at the free clinic?

  RuPaul

  Sharon, Needles

  "RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: The RuPocalypse Is Here" by Jaimie Etkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Already published reports, as well as our own observations indicate that smallpox vaccination sometimes produces manifestations of leukemia. In children and adults observed in the clinics of Cracow, smallpox vaccination has been followed by violent local and general reactions and by leukemia.

  Julian Aleksandrowicz

  Children, Cancer, Adults

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• Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion clinics?

  William Blum

  Military, War, Abortion

  William Blum (2014). “America's Deadliest Export: Democracy – The Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else”, p.170, Zed Books Ltd.

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• I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others.

  Debby Ryan

  Home, School, Nursing

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• Oh my, I've just discovered what science shows us about our humble but spectacular place in the universe, and I have to say: it is thrilling and mind-boggling beyond all imaginings! It makes the Bible so puny and uninspired, and certainly less poetic, by comparison. I'm terribly sorry. I sincerely misunderstood so much. I almost wish there were a God so I could be punished for all the suffering I have obliviously caused in the world. But since there will be no cosmic punishment for me, I will spend what time I have left working in a family planning clinic in Latin America. Good day.

  Julia Sweeney

  Sorry, Latin, Humble

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