Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

Christiaan Barnard
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  1. It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

  2. For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is at the end. If a lion chases you to the bank of a river filled with crocodiles, you will leap...

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