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| 0c8028e | Great necessities call out great virtues. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| fc84683 | The painful apprehension within the administration mirrored the fears experienced in hundreds of thousands of homes throughout the country. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 10650e2 | Hit the ground running; consolidate control; ask questions of everyone wherever you go; manage by wandering around; determine the basic problems of each organization and hit them head-on; when attacked, counterattack; stick to your guns; spend your political capital to reach your goals; and then when your work is stymied or done, find a way out. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| eea8399 | Refuse to let past resentments fester; transcend personal vendettas. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 86738b9 | How had Lincoln been able to lead these inordinately prideful, ambitious, quarrelsome, jealous, supremely gifted men to support a fundamental shift in the purpose of the war? The best answer can be found in what we identify today as Lincoln's emotional intelligence: his empathy, humility, consistency, self-awareness, self-discipline, and generosity of spirit. "So long as I have been here," Lincoln maintained, "I have not willingly planted a.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 50fe8d5 | The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| e679257 | temporizing | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| eea0a72 | perfidy | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 166a543 | From the time he had first spoken out against the extension of slavery into the territories in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Lincoln had insisted that while the spread of slavery must be "fairly headed off," he had no wish "to interfere with slavery" where it already existed. So long as the institution was contained, which Lincoln considered a sacred pledge, it was "in course of ultimate extinction." This position represented perfect.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 0fc3953 | alacrity, | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 18020dd | Do leaders shape the times or do the times summon their leaders? | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| d87216d | The American people," Johnson continued, "are tired of wrecking crews. They want builders--people who construct. They will entrust their affairs to the party that is constructive." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 97f0c7e | If you're constantly running at top speed, and never take the time to assess your life, especially your relationship with your partner, by the time you discover you've been running in the wrong direction, it may be too late to do anything about it. | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| 853043a | Testing his image in Hartford, he would refine it further in subsequent speeches. "If I saw a venomous snake crawling in the road," Lincoln began, "any man would say I might seize the nearest stick and kill it; but if I found that snake in bed with my children, that would be another question. I might hurt the children more than the snake, and it might bite them. . . . But if there was a bed newly made up, to which the children were to be ta.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 8afd9e2 | There are points of likeness in the seminal disasters that befell both Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt in the early stages of their careers. Both crucibles were precipitated by a combination of intimate, personal crises and public repudiation that seemed to crush their core ambitions. Both swore off politics or at least paid lip service to deserting politics forever. Both suffered severe depressions. Healing change had to come from w.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 876d2d8 | of bed rest. Thee feared that his son was | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 8759c89 | no one knew better than Lincoln that words have consequences. In a world of tinder, he was determined to hold his rhetorical gifts in abeyance in order to reach across factions and avoid a single spark that could set loose an avoidable conflagration. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 54939e9 | a "culture of rescue" still dominates American medicine, according to Sherwin B. Nuland, in a 2010 update to How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter. Dr. Nuland writes, in a coda to his sixteen-year-old best seller, that" | Jane Gross | ||
| 6be3cc9 | How We Die, Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland rails at the "soulless summary" of the death certificate." | Jane Gross | ||
| 5b323d2 | Though everyone may yearn for a tranquil death, the basic instinct to stay alive is a far more powerful force | medicine | Sherwin B. Nuland | |
| 819ad02 | Whatever mystery attaches to such a death is imposed on it by those who live. It is a tribute to the human spirit that the life preceding triumphs over the ugly events that most of us will experience as we die, or as we move toward our last moments. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 7b7244a | Today the law defines death, with appropriate blurriness, as the cessation of brain function. Though the heart may still throb and the unknowing bone marrow create new cells, no man's history can outlive his brain. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| b00c526 | Whether the result of wear, tear, and exhaustion of resources or whether genetically programmed, all life has a finite span and each species has its own particular longevity. For human beings, this would appear to be approximately 100 to 110 years. This means that even were it possible to prevent or cure every disease that carries people off before the ravages of senescence do, virtually no one would live beyond a century or a bit more. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 1b1be59 | It is through the eyes of youth that everything is constantly being seen anew and rediscovered with the advantage of knowing what has gone before; it is youth that is not mired in the old ways of approaching the challenges of this imperfect world. Each new generation yearns to prove itself--and, in proving itself, to accomplish great things for humanity. Among living creatures, to die and leave the stage is the way of nature--old age is the.. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 5dca592 | Persistence can only break the hearts of those we love and of ourselves as well, not to mention the purse of society that should be spent for the care of others who have not yet lived their allotted time. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 27fa8bc | And when he died, I was glad. I know it sounds terrible to say that, but I was happy he was relieved of that degrading sickness. I knew he never suffered, and I knew he had no idea what was happening to him, and I was grateful for that. It was a blessing--it was the only thing that kept me going, all of those months and years. But it was a horrible thing to watch happening to someone I loved so much. You know, when I went to the hospital af.. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| dbca2ce | No matter the technological sophistication of ultramodern molecular research, and no matter the increasingly abstruse terminology of its current literature, the circle of knowledge always returns to its starting point: In order to live, man must have air. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| c4c80bd | Beyond the curiosity and the problem-solving challenge fundamental to good research, I believe that the fantasy of controlling nature lies at the very basis of modern science. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 17b6ef7 | The ultimate aim of the scientist is not only knowledge for the sake of knowledge, but knowledge with the aim of overcoming that in our environment which he views as hostile. None of the acts of nature (or Nature) is more hostile than death. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 6a7f186 | Nature will always win in the end, as it must if our species is to survive. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 0c7be56 | Perhaps the mere existence of things undone should be a sort of satisfaction in itself, though the idea would appear to be paradoxical. Only one who is long since dead while still seemingly alive does not have many "promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep," and that state of inertness is not to be desired. To the wise advice that we live every day as though it will be our last, we do well to add the admonition to live every day as .. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 2cf0b23 | Since human beings first began to write, they have recorded their wish for an idealized ending some call the "good death," as if any of us can ever be sure of it or have any reason to expect it. There are pitfalls of decision-making to be sidestepped and varieties of hope to seek, but beyond that we must forgive ourselves when we cannot achieve some preconceived image of dying right." | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 2ab0591 | card | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| ee863f4 | Turn off the camera. | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| 388aa42 | It is probably a universal teaching of all cultures that putting a name to a demon helps to decrease its fearsomeness. I sometimes wonder whether the real, perhaps culturally subconscious, reason that medical pioneers have always sought to identify and classify specific diseases is less to understand than to beard them. Confrontation, somehow, is safer once we have set a label on a thing, as if the very process makes the beast sit still for.. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 0888664 | Endorphin elevation appears to be an innate physiological mechanism to protect mammals and perhaps other animals against the emotional and physical dangers or terror and pain. It is a survival device, and because it has evolutionary value it probably appeared during the savage period of our prehistory when sudden life-threatening events occurred with frequency. Many a life has no doubt been saved by the absence of panicky response to sudden.. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 81b19ee | These days (if I may steal a term from the jargon of the contemporary rialto), it is not politically correct to admit that some people die of old age. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 8c0a108 | So it was like the old scenario that so often throws a shadow over the last days of people with cancer: we knew--she knew--we knew she knew--she knew we knew--and none of us would talk about it when we were all together. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| a5896d6 | Carolyn had told me that while he was still able, Bob had arranged to have his favorite words from his favorite work of Dickens inscribed on his grave marker, but still I was unprepared for their effect when actually seen. Engraved across the granite face of the footstone was the epitaph by which Bob DeMatteis had chosen to be remembered: "And it was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well." | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 9b5b214 | Nowadays, very few of us actually witness the deaths of those we love. Not many people die at home anymore, and those who do are usually the victims of drawn-out diseases or chronic degenerative conditions in which drugging and narcosis effectively hide the biological events that are occurring. Of the approximately 80 percent of Americans who die in a hospital, almost all are in large part concealed, or at least the details of the final app.. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 6bba49b | The patient dies alone among strangers: well-meaning, empathetic, determinedly committed to sustaining his life - but strangers nonetheless. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| a319f3b | Unless we are aware that we are dying and so far as possible know the conditions of our death, we cannot share any sort of final consummation with those who love us. Without this consummation, no matter their presence at the hour of passing, we will remain | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 3b95717 | unattended and isolated. For it is the promise of spiritual companionship near the end that gives us hope, much more than does the mere offsetting of the fear of being physically without anyone. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 7215111 | I recently discussed this with my school's professor of geriatric medicine, Dr. Leo Cooney, who later summarized his viewpoint in two pithy paragraphs of a letter: "Most geriatricians are at the forefront of those who believe in withholding vigorous interventions designed simply to prolong life. It is geriatricians who are constantly challenging nephrologists [kidney specialists] who dialyze very old people, pulmonologists [lung specialists.. | Sherwin B. Nuland |