William Osler Quotes
To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.
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Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I love doing every role I do!
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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I never lie to my fans.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
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As soon as I left school at 16, I worked in a factory making aircraft components.
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You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.Live well, my son.
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To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.
