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“It is the fear of death - 24/7 in every shade of hospital white and doomsday black--that sells the pharmaceutical, political, financial, film, and food product promising to make good the wish to live forever.”

Quote by Lewis H. Lapham

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Lewis H. Lapham

Lewis H. Lapham is an American writer born on January 8, 1935. He is known for his distinctive literary style and profound insights into American society and politics. more

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“About the presence of death and dying I don't remember the society in the 1950s being so skittish as it has since become. People still died at home, among relatives and friends, often in the care of a family physician. Death was still to be seen sitting in the parlor, hanging in a butcher shop, sometimes lying in the street.”

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“If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.”

Ifs Leadership Becoming Organization Performing Destination Engines

Book:Leading at a Higher Level, Revised and Expanded Edition: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations

Source: Leading at a Higher Level, Revised and Expanded Edition: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations

“After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: "Pick out a good one and sock it!”

Made Young Answers Advice Picks Asking Fellows Sock

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“Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience ... it's just chance that I happened to be here at this particular time when there was available and at my disposal the great experience of all the investigators who plodded along for a number of years.”

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“As a bio-philosopher - as someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process of evolution, and in a sense, we have become the process itself - through the emergence and evolution of our consciousness, our awareness, our capacity to imagine and to anticipate the future and to choose from amongst alternatives.”

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“The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.”

Values Becoming Ideology Showbiz

Author:Brian Eno

“Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.”

Values Objects Conversation Telephones

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“The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.”

Reason Fighting Vision Agree Radical Fear No One

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“At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly."”

Men Said Song Party Couple Decent Epitaph

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“A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole.”

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Book:Conjoint Family Therapy

Source: Conjoint Family Therapy