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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Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1998For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCWho sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BCThe best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871Technology is so much fun, but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
—Daniel Boorstin, 1978If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals—except the weasel.
—The Simpsons, 1993Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
—Heinrich Heine, 1827