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Harvey Cushing: A physician is...

Harvey Cushing: A physician is...

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man -- he must view the man...

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John Abernethy: We must adopt...

John Abernethy: We must adopt...

We must adopt loathsome diseases for our familiar associates, or we shall never be thoroughly acquainted with their...

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August Bier: A smart mother...

August Bier: A smart mother...

A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor.

Source: In...

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Han Suyin: Truth, like surgery,...

Han Suyin: Truth, like surgery,...

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

Source: A Many Spendored Thing.
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Stanislaw Lem: Cancel me not...

Stanislaw Lem: Cancel me not...

Cancel me not -- for what shall then remain?
Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes,
A root or two, a torus...

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E B White: Analyzing humor is...

E B White: Analyzing humor is...

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of...

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Frederick Douglass: Power concedes nothing...

Frederick Douglass: Power concedes nothing...

Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices...

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Conquer but don't...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Conquer but don't...

Conquer but don't triumph.

Source: Aph, 1905.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach,...

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John Fowles: There are many...

John Fowles: There are many...

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative...

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Graham Henry Greene: He entered the...

Graham Henry Greene: He entered the...

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Source: The Heart...

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Anthony Burgess: The possession of...

Anthony Burgess: The possession of...

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Source: New York...

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Booth Tarkington: The only good...

Booth Tarkington: The only good...

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool...

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Hermann Hesse: Eternity is a...

Hermann Hesse: Eternity is a...

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Henry Miller: The worst sin...

Henry Miller: The worst sin...

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Own only what...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Own only what...

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your...

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Malcolm Bradbury: Culture is a...

Malcolm Bradbury: Culture is a...

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

Source: In The...

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Edward Hoagland: The question of...

Edward Hoagland: The question of...

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded...

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Harper Lee: I'm no idealist...

Harper Lee: I'm no idealist...

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it...

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Harper Lee: Shoot all the...

Harper Lee: Shoot all the...

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a...

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Thomas Wolfe: If a man...

Thomas Wolfe: If a man...

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly...

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