William Osler Quotes
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In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins.
Hans Fischer -
When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.
Felicity Kendal -
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
Zoe Kazan -
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
Olivier Sarkozy
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Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.
Floyd Skloot -
I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
Jack Kevorkian -
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
J. B. Priestley -
He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
Karl G. Maeser -
Keep your head up and be patient.
AJ McLean -
Our duty is to be patient.
Hamza Yusuf
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There's a thin line between catering to the masses and making a fool of yourself; I try to walk that line.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu -
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson -
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln -
The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.
Rachel Cusk -
Does the damned fool want to be blown up? Well, blow him up then. Give him hell, Captain Morton- as hot as you've got it, too.
Nathan Bedford Forrest -
No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or two,Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,Deferential, glad to be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous;Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;At times, indeed, almost ridiculous - Almost, at times, the Fool.
T. S. Eliot
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After I wrote Handmaid’s Tale, people came up to me and asked why weren’t there any protests. And I said, 'You don’t understand totalitarianism.' A real totalitarianism doesn’t fool around with protests in the streets.
Margaret Atwood -
I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
Albert Einstein -
Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
There are programs that don't work.
Sam Graves -
I wouldn't change myself at all. Being transgender makes me who I am: a strong person, a confident person. Being transgender gives me my personality.
Jazz Jennings -
A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
William Osler