“ On CBS Radio the news of Ed Murrow's death, reportedly from lung cancer, was followed by a cigarette commercial. ”
- Alexander Kendrick- Copy
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“ What light is to the eyes — what air is to the lungs — what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. ”
- Robert Green Ingersoll- Copy
- 298
“ Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her. ”
- J. M. Synge- Copy
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“ It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. ”
- Robert Orben- Copy
- 2.4K
“ For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable. ”
- St. Jerome- Copy
- 2.4K
“ I always loved running — it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs. ”
- Jesse Owens- Copy
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“ I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of linehe survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before… ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
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“ To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't. ”
- Primo Levi- Copy
- 2.2K
“ If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you're crazy. It can fix you so you can't play nothing or sing nothing. ”
- Billie Holiday- Copy
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“ If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. "Just keep my liver and lungs in good working order," I'd reply, "so I can go on drinking and smoking!". ”
- Luis Bunuel- Copy
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“ Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body — the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know. ”
- Donald Curtis- Copy
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