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Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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And then they sign an affidavit swearing that she's not in a vegetative stage. I'll tell you. That's a doctor you really want; they can look at a picture and make a diagnosis. ↗

— Michael Schiavo

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Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think. ↗

— Bobby Scott

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In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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