Evan Esar Quotes
The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter.
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My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.
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I don't have lavish taste.
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Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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I love my garlic press; in fact, it is probably my one true desert island gadget. But I'm happy to put it aside whenever the smell and sweet taste of slow-cooked garlic is called for.
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If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.
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Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.
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Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.
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I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
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There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
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I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.
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Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.
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I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
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Without ducking responsibility, what's wrong with medicine today is that it is predicated on providing treatment, not on reducing suffering. Not on solving problems.
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I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.
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The basic prescription for preventing deflation is straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support aggregate spending, in a manner as nearly consistent as possible with full utilization of economic resources and low and stable inflation. In other words, the best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place.
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For years, despite having impeccable taste, I didn't understand how to convey that I had impeccable taste.
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Medicine is often conservative and slow to incorporate something that wasn't there before and that we're afraid people are going to laugh at us for. But, the beauty of music is - well, a couple things. There are no side effects that are harmful. Music doesn't do that. It doesn't have any negative effects whatsoever. So I do think it's going to come, but I think it's a new idea for people.
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My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.
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I have always been intensely uncomfortable with the idea of a science fiction writer as prophet. Not that there haven't been science fiction writers who think of themselves as having some sort of prophetic role, but when I think of that, I always think of H.G. Wells - he would think of what was going to happen, and he would imagine how it would happen, and then he would create a fiction to illustrate the idea that he'd had. And no part of my process has ever resembled that at all.
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There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.
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A smile cures the wounding of a frown.
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The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter.
