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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It's frightening to think with modern medicine and all the technique available to them they can't really help you. In the old days, you know, you were better off because nowadays, they are all specialists. Everyone's becoming better and better at less and less. Eventually someone's going to be superb, at nothing.
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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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To live by medicine is to live horribly.
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We've never been good at long-term plans.
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The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.
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The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter.
