The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
—Bernard De Voto, 1951
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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850We and the dead ride quick at night.
—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
—Walter Scott, 1823After each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams.
—E.M. Cioran, 1949The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.
—Flannery O’Connor, 1964I have been a stranger here in my own land all my life.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCHe who laugheth too much, hath the nature of a fool; he that laugheth not at all, hath the nature of an old cat.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Whoever has died is freed from sin.
—St. Paul, c. 50Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128