Quotes
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Induced oppressive thoughts and drunkenness
Anton Chekhov, who visited Sakhalin nearly a century earlier, described it as a “gloomy little world” with its forbidding cliffs overlooking the vast sea, the roar of the breaking waves and the dark skies that induced “oppressive thoughts and drunkenness” among the few inhabitants… Sergey Radchenko
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Quote from Assisted suicide, The Economist, 21st July 2014
Assisted suicide, Easeful death. Most people in the Western world favour assisted suicide. The law should reflect their will. Moral absolutes are rare. When faced with dilemmas societies draw boundaries and carve out exceptions. In even the seemingly clearest of cases, such as the prohibition on killing, exceptions are made for things like war and…