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The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.

—Bernard De Voto, 1951

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, 1998

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

—The Upanishads, c. 800 BC

The best quarantine is hygiene.

—Richard D. Arnold, 1871

Technology is so much fun, but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

—Daniel Boorstin, 1978

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

—Henry Clay, 1812

Kill 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, 1939

Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals—except the weasel.

—The Simpsons, 1993

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

—Ovid, 8

When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1594

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. 

—Heinrich Heine, 1827