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Certainly thought he was rushing his decision to resume his studies immediately. you never thought about taking a year off or taking a couple years uf? >> no. i knew that would be fatal. it was not a question. >> because you just couldn't survive? >> yeah. i mean, life would be over. it's a little early for life to be over. >> while nobody had heard of someone with his injury standing up to the rigors of a med school curriculum, krauthammer convinced harvard to let him try. amazingly, mere weeks after his accident he resumed classes while still in his hospital bed. >> i was lying on my back, c...

>> i made one promise to myself on day one. i was not going to allow it to alter my life except in ways which are sort of having to do with gravity. i'm not going to defy gravity and i'm not going to walk and water ski again. that's fine. so that you know. but on the big things in life, the direction of my life, what i was going to do, that wouldn't change at all. >> krauthammer says he never entertained the notion one day through his own effort or a medal miracle he would regain full use of his arms and legs. he resigned himself to the cold reality that wherever he went in life he'd go in a w...

About his brother marcel. i was thinking about this piece. this is not about you but the last line. the catastrophe that awaits everyone from a single false move, wrong turn, fatal encounter, every life has such a moment. what distinguishes us is whether and how we ever come become. >> that's why the rick ankiel story resonates with me so much. there's an element of that in everybody's story. there are low points. do you want it enough? are you lucky enough? that's a part of it, too. >> while his injury has kept him off the playing fields and courts, he's pursued another competitive outlet. ch...

Achieves consciousness and the kind of science to transmit a signal, they destroy themselves and the question is, can we regulate our politics in a way that will allow the human species to flourish and produce the beautiful stuff? that's a question that only can be answered. >> coming up, battering the president and taking off ticking off the tea party? have you seen this mail? >> my assistant reads most of my nai mail, and he's now in therapy. who are we? we are the thinkers. the job jugglers. the up all-nighters. and the ones who turn ideas into action. we've made our passions our life's wor...

I mean, it's -- you know, you reach a point on the internet, you know, middle of the night an playing speech s and you realize in a motel and drinking aqua velva. >> your book was supposed to be a collection of essays on things other than politics but didn't turn out that way. why? >> in the end, all the beautiful, elegant things in life depend ultimately on getting politics right. >> you say science, art, poetry, baseball must ultimately bow to politics. >> i have a column in the book where i write about the firmy paradox. firmy was a great physicist and posed a simple question. we know there...