Michael Specter Quotes
I started to write about science and medicine at the Washington Post, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
Michael Specter
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The first step to prescribing the right medicine is to recognize the cause of the illness. And, when it comes to what is ailing the global economy, extreme monetary easing has been more cause than cure. The sooner we recognize that, the stronger and more sustainable the global economic recovery will be.
Raghuram Rajan
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.
J. G. Ballard
The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.
Magic Johnson
Someone will eventually succeed in this hunt for a longevity pill, and when they do, one of the greatest advances in the history of medicine will have been achieved.
S. Jay Olshansky
In 1995, Glaxo bought Burroughs Wellcome and became the presumptive leader in AIDS therapy.
Barton Gellman
I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.
Patch Adams
Medicine ended up being the best thing I ever did for my writing.
Ethan Canin
The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative, and not just in terms of politics - how, if you're an artist, you can start out being somewhat avant-garde and then end up doing landscapes.
Richard Prince
Americans think their danger is terrorists. They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution.... The terrorists are not anything like the threat we face from our own government in the name of fighting terrorism.... The American constitutional system is near to being overthrown.
Paul Craig Roberts
A visual always brings a first impression. But if there's going to be a first impression, I might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?
MF DOOM
I started to write about science and medicine at the Washington Post, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
Michael Specter
