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The diagnosis was immediate: Masses matting the lungs and deforming the spine. Cancer. In my neurosurgical training, I had reviewed hundreds of scans for fellow doctors to see if surgery offered any hope. I'd scribble in the chart 'Widely metastatic disease - no role for surgery,' and move on. But this scan was different: It was my own.


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PAUL RYAN The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. Pe...
PAUL RYAN If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew...
PAUL FARMER These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in tea...
PAUL CELLUCCI As Americans, we have traditionally been the optimists sporting the 'can-do' attitude. But w...
PAUL TONKO Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute supp...
PAUL TONKO The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
GABE PAUL Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
JEAN PAUL This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only...
PAUL O'NEILL Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks ag...
PAUL BEGALA I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could...
PAUL WALKER By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaica three or four years, but I had hits ou...
SEAN PAUL The Jam went through a phase of wearing satin jackets. But that was pre-getting signed and making it...
PAUL WELLER It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission an...
PAUL HAWKEN The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN PAUL Traditionally, our ancestors boiled mushrooms in water to make a soothing tea. Boiling served severa...
PAUL STAMETS Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
PAUL WHITEMAN In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
PAUL DIRAC It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" -- not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only y...
PAUL GOODMAN The look of a king is itself a deed.
JEAN PAUL A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its...
PAUL DAVIES