“Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.”
Source: The History of Love
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Song lyrics, Cold Spring Harbor (1971)
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“At our age, loneliness can seem so permanent.”
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“Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.”
“We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.”
Millard Parlette's notes, in Ch. 7 : The Bleeding Heart
A Gift From Earth (1968)
Context: Any citizen, with the help of the organ banks, can live as long as it takes his central nervous system to wear out. This can be a very long time if his circulatory system is kept functioning. … But the citizen, cannot take more out of the organ banks than goes into them. He must do his utmost to see that they are supplied. … The only feasible method of supplying the organ banks is through execution of criminals. … A criminal's pirated body can save a dozen lives. There is now no valid argument against capital punishment for any given crime; for all such argument seeks to prove that killing a man does society no good.
Hence the citizen, who wants to live as long and as healthily as possible, will vote any crime into a capital crime if the organ banks are short of material. … Cite Earth's capital punishment for false advertising, income tax evasion, air pollution, having children without a license.
The wonder was that it had taken so long to pass these laws.
“Take my assets — but leave me my organization and in five years I'll have it all back.”
Alfred P. Sloan in the 1920s, cited in: Thomas S. Bateman, Scott Snell (1999), Management: building competitive advantage. p. 276