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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
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pain
inspiration
inspirational
cancer
quitting
failure
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Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins |
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the world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world
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indianapolis
cancer
hazel-grace
tfios
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
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Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...
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kiss
stars
romantic
romance
inspire
love
inspirational
fangirl
lovely-quote
okay
thefaultinourstars
cancer
augustus-waters
hazel-grace-lancaster
john-green
author
green
tfios
the-fault-in-our-stars
john
fault
always
book
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John Green |
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It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace...
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pain
sorrow
sorrowful
cancer
sad
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John Green |
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The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.
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death-and-dying
romantic
death
cowpox
smallpox
cancer
augustus-waters
waters
hazel-grace
the-fault-in-our-stars
grace
beautiful
hazel
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John Green |
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The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was going to die, did I want to do it fighting and clawing or in peaceful surrender? What sort of character did I hope to show? Was I content with myself and what I had done with my life so far? I decided that I was essentially a good person, although I could have been better--but at the same time I understood that the cancer didn't care
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mortality
bravery
morality
death
science
inspirational
cancer
doctors
belief
medicine
atheism
inevitable
knowledge
honor
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Lance Armstrong |
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Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.
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humor
life
cancer
smoking
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J.R. Ward |
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Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.
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family
death
sadness
jodi-picoult
my-sister-s-keeper
leukemia
cancer
kate
jesse
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Jodi Picoult |
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If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
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illness
cancer
cancer-kids
children-with-cancer
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John Green |
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"Breast cancer, I can now report, did not make me prettier or stronger, more feminine or spiritual. What it gave me, if you want to call this a "gift," was a very personal, agonizing encounter with an ideological force in American culture that I had not been aware of before--one that encourages us to deny reality, submit cheerfully to misfortune, and blame only ourselves for our fate."
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cancer
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Barbara Ehrenreich |
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Democracy is cancerous, and bureaus are its cancer. A bureau takes root anywhere in the state, turns malignant like the Narcotic Bureau, and grows and grows, always reproducing more of its own kind, until it chokes the host if not controlled or excised. Bureaus cannot live without a host, being true parasitic organisms. (A cooperative on the other hand can live without the state. That is the road to follow. The building up of independent units to meet needs of the people who participate in the functioning of the unit. A bureau operates on opposite principles of inventing needs to justify its existence.) Bureaucracy is wrong as a cancer, a turning away from the human evolutionary direction of infinite potentials and differentiation and independent spontaneous action to the complete parasitism of a virus. (It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from more complex life-form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another -- the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter.) Bureaus die when the structure of the state collapse. They are as helpless and unfit for independent existence as a displaced tapeworm, or a virus that has killed the host.
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bureaucratization
bureaucrats
bureaucracy
cancer
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William S. Burroughs |
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"I've seen how cigarettes went from being advertised in every type of media to being something found to be deadly... they can't kill me no matter how many of them I smoke but I've seen humans die from smoking them... if I were you I would stop smoking them." "Why should I? You smoke 'em all the time, you chain-smoke cigarettes," Mandy pointed out. "Yeah, I started doing that back in the Sixties... for reasons you likely saw on those VHS tapes... but I'm not a person, I'm Pollution, things like that aren't dangerous to me but they are to you," Alecto told her. "It's not a good idea."
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grief
loss
depression
past
education
cigar
blast-from-the-past
chain-smoke
no-smoking
vhs-tape
retro
depress
deadly
times
disturbing
smog
haunting
gray
cancer
spooky
video
creepy
smoke
cigarette
tobacco
pollution
attack
health
eerie
scary
sick
knowledge
trapped
self-help
horror
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Rebecca McNutt |
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And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my friend waste all that time going to chemotherapy? I guess we should have just played him a bunch of shitty Black Flag records.
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life-saver
saved-my-life
cancer
punk-rock
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Chuck Klosterman |
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"As a recent editorial in the Journal of Clinical Oncology put it: "What we must first remember is that the immune system is designed to detect foreign invaders, and avoid out own cells. With few exceptions, the immune system does not appear to recognize cancers within an individual as foreign, because they are actually part of the self."
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positive-thinking
clinical-oncology
oncology
cancer
medicine
immune-system
psychology
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Barbara Ehrenreich |
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"Like Mom, Zoe thought-like Mom used to. And that's where they differed, for Zoe wrote quiet poetry suffused with twilight and questions. It's not even good poetry, she thought. I don't have talent, it's her. I should be the one ill; she has so much to offer, so much life. "You're a dark one," her mother said sometimes with amused wonder. "You're a mystery."
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pain
loss
emotion
sadness
dying-mother
greif
cancer
lonliness
mother
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Annette Curtis Klause |
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HE LIKED TO COOK AND LAUGH AND SING, COULD START A FIRE WITH HIS HANDS, FIX THINGS THAT WERE BROKEN, AND EXPLAIN HOW TO LAUNCH THINGS INTO SPACE, BUT HE DIED WITHIN NINE MONTHS
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death
cancer
father
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Nicole Krauss |
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"[Karen Lundegaard] was quite frail, debilitated by metastatic breast cancer, which she had long known she had but for which she had been unable to get adequate treatment because she lacked medical insurance. ("If you mention anything about me," she said, "tell people that.")" --
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inspiration
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medical-insurance
cancer
introduction
insurance
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Amy Tan |
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Hormonal changes permanently alter the breast's structure. And when a pregnancy is terminated through abortion, the process is interrupted, which leaves cells in a sate of transition. And they say cells in this state have a very high risk of becoming cancerous. So the woman's chances of developing breast cancer later in life my be greatly increased.
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cancer
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Francine Rivers |
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Iata ce-am invatat despre cancer: iti arata ce inseamna o boala incurabila si apoi te azvarle inapoi in lume, in propria ta viata, cu toata placerea si dulceata ei, pe care le simti acum mai mult ca niciodata. Si stii ca ti s-a dat ceva si ti s-a luat ceva.
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invata-sa-traiesti
cancer
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Irvin D. Yalom |
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The urge to fight, to maul, to murder: it is the greatest cancer that afflicts mankind. It obliterates the body of the victim, and the spirit of the the one who strikes the blow. I have seen it...
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mankind
murder
spirit
maul
cancer
fight
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