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I suspect that the vast majority of people, not knowing in advance whether they will either end up in a permanently vegetative state or be diagnosed with cancer, would prefer that any resources that would be spent on PVS care be reallocated to cancer research--or some similar enterprise that has the potential to help human beings who might actually recover.
jacob m. appel— "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing", The Huffington Post (2010-06-23)
Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.
beryl bainbridge— The New York Times, March 1, 1981. [2]
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his own propertyat the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
— Collected in Further Extracts from the Notebooks (1934).
We will be one of the extinguished species. The good news is that life on the planet will recover and peace will return to the environment.
— Extinction: Evolution and the End of Man (2002)
We shall never recover the true apostolic energy, and be endued with power from on high, as the first disciples were, 'till we recover the lost faith.
horace bushnell— P. 237. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
It is shocking, It is quite obvious that security of the Sri Lankan players has been hopelessly inadequate. We condemn the shooting and we hope that players like Samaraweera and Mendis are safe and will recover.
p. chidambaram— "Security of Sri Lankan players hopelessly inadequate: Chidambaram". Times of India (Times of India). 3 March 2009. Retrieved on 3 March 2009.
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
colette— “Wedding Day”, Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps
Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
alice cooper— On the game of Golf in an interview with Nick Harper in The Guardian (28 November 2003)
When faith is kneeling by his bed of death,And innocence is closing up his eyes,Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over,From death to life thou might’st him yet recover.
Michael Drayton— Sonnet: Love's Farewell, lines 11-14.
[The Mexican revolution] was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.
Carlos Fuentes— Quoted in Anne-Marie O'Connor, "Novelist Carlos Fuentes confronts mortality and his country's future", Los Angeles Times, 26 April 2006
If it had not been for his malice, forcing me to return, I would have been able to recover the whole of Outremer. Then, when I was in prison he conspired to keep me there so that he could steal my lands.
richard i of england— Richard on his alleged betrayal by King Philip; Richard I - Gillingham (from primary source)
It was measured that the splinters of the Armenian nation that had managed to miraculously escape the Genocide would not be able to recover from the blow, would disappear in the whirlpools on five continents, lose their national identity, and aptitude to be a political factor. But we, as a nation and as a state, were able to reappear at the international arena to affirm that we continue our eternal journey and that we are determined not to allow for such a crime to ever happen again.
serzh sargsyan— President Serzh Sargsyan’s Address on the Commemoration of the 95th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide (April 24, 2010)
I've said it before, I'll say it again, Sarah Palin will never recover from this ... No matter what people say, no matter what these polls, she has no future."
david shuster— On Sarah Palin's political future. 2009 -[5]
Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of inertia, are saying nowadays that it is impossible, that India is decayed, bloodless and lifeless, too weak ever to recover; that our race is doomed to extinction. It is a foolish and idle saying. No man or nation need be weak unless he chooses, no man or nation need perish unless he deliberately chooses extinction.
sri aurobindo— 1905
Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.
Edmund Burke— Speech at Bristol Previous to the Election (6 September 1780).
Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free States alone, if we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation.
rutherford b. hayes— Diary (4 January 1861).
Today and over the foreseeable future,traditional capitalism throughout most of the world has been thrown on a defensive from which it is doubtful that it can never recover.
robert heilbroner— Chapter II, Part 7, The Drift Away From Capitalism, p. 94
But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.
haruki murakami— South of the Border, West of the Sun
With the ripening of the fruits in Autumn the leaves begin to wither and the trees, taking up their sap from the earth through the roots, recover themselves and are restored to their former solid texture. But the strong air of winter compresses and solidifies them.
vitruvius— Chapter IX, Sec. 2
And these signs shall follow them that believe: In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues. They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
— On Serpent handling dated to antiquity quoted in the Gospel of Mark(Template:Bibleref) Snake handling in some Pentecostal churches derives from this passage in the Bible.
I think that a man who has been guilty of an indictable offence ought not to have the assistance of the law to recover the profits of his crime; and that whether his agents be innocent or criminal, privy or not privy, his claim against those agents is equally inadmissible in a Court of law.
— Booke, J., Farmer v. Russell (1798), 2 Bos. & Pull. 301.
I used to pray to recover you."
— Sylvia Plath, (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Daddy (l. 14)
Wait a moment, please! Yes, we suffered a temporary defeat in battle, but by releasing our Vollständig, we were able to recover! We can still fight for Your Majesty's sake!!
— Who: BG9
— Notes: Both BG9 and Cang Du were defeated by their opponents due to unforseen circumstances. Despite both surviving without any major injuries and willing to continue fighting, Yhwach orders Haschwalth to kill them anyway.
Kierkegaard said that the only way we can be released from the enchantment, the siren song of the myths, is to play the music through backwards. To break the spell of the ego I must recover my personal and political history, I must demythologize the private, family, and public myths that have informed me.
— Sam Keen, The Passionate Life (1983), p. 140
If we can recover the naturalistic ambitions of Marx , Nietzsche , and Freud , ... philosophy becomes relevant because the world riven as it is with hypocrisy and concealment desperately needs a hermeneutics of suspicion to unmask it. And by taking these three seminal figures of the Continental traditions as philosophical naturalists we show their work to be continuous with the naturalistic turn that has swept Anglophone philosophy over the past several decades. ... The antipathy to naturalism often thought to be constitutive of “the Continental tradition” is simply an artifact of cutting the joints of that tradition in certain places.
— Brian Leiter "The Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Recovering Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud" in: The Future for Philosophy, ed. Leiter (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004), pp. 74-105 (Full text online)
The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love .
bruce parry— Maia Szalavitz. The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook - What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us about Loss, Love and Healing, Basic Books, 5 December 2007), p. 230
Who that woll make ony more lette hym seke other bookis kynge Arthure or of sir Launcelot and sir Trystrams; for this was drawen by a knyght presoner, sir Thomas Malleoré, that God send him good recover.
— Sir Thomas Malory at the end of the chapter The Tale of King Arthur of his larger work, written circa 1468-1470 while held in Newgate Prison as a captured partisan of the rebellious Earl of Warwick. Reprinted in Malory Works, edited by Eugene Vinaver, 1954.
With the ripening of the fruits in Autumn the leaves begin to wither and the trees, taking up their sap from the earth through the roots, recover themselves and are restored to their former solid texture. But the strong air of winter compresses and solidifies them.
— Chapter IX, Sec. 2 (Book II)
Revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. ~ John Milton in Areopagitica
— used 23 November 2010, proposed by Kalki
