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Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.

~Caitlin Doughty

Topics: Bed Century Choice Concept Die Dying Environment Family Friends Friends And Family Given Had Home Hospital Late New Nothing People Person Relatively Reserved Sanitary Surrounded Wanted Who 19Th Century

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I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

~Carlos Santana

Topics: About African Blues Concept Every False Jazz Jazz Musician Just Like Musician Played Show You I Can

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The 1969 experience has been a rude awakening for many hedge-fund investors and has left some of them with strong reservations about the whole concept. For the first time in their relatively short history, the funds are not growing: in fact, some have suffered large withdrawals of capital, and a few have actually folded.

~Carol Loomis

Topics: About Actually Awakening Been Capital Concept Experience Fact Few First First Time Folded Funds Growing History In Fact Investors Large Left Many Relatively Reservations Rude Short Some Strong Suffered Them Time Whole

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Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Alas Alone Concept Happy How Lost Many Merry Possible Reclusive Say You

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The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

~Carolyn Maloney

Topics: Concept Controversial Equally Hardly Law Men Men And Women Proposal Should Treated Women

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Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop a series of books about an anonymous high-school blogger who gossips about her classmates. The concept was passed on to me.

~Cecily Von Ziegesar

Topics: About Anonymous Back Book Books Caught Children Classmates Concept Days Develop Each Editor Fact Gossip Gossips Her High-School Internet Me Might Other Passed Series Teenagers Thought Using Were Who

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People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.

~Charlaine Harris

Topics: Concept Culture Eternal Interested People Really Youth

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I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Blind Careful Concept Dance Falling Flowing Grace Hope Lively More New Only Out Path Poems Rather Times Will Worked

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If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.

~Charles Francis Richter

Topics: Concept Derived Earthquake Energy Quantity Then Theoretically

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I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.

~Charles Kennedy

Topics: Concept Day Equal Hate Imagine Me Mean Measure Music Silence Simon Sound Stimulates Track Without

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