Rene Descartes Quotes
Even the mind depends so much on temperament and the disposition of one's bodily organs that, if it is possible to find a way to make people generally more wise and more skilful than they have been in the past, I believe that we should look for it in medicine. It is true that medicine as it is currently practiced contains little of much use.

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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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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
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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 had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
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There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.
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There is too little courtship in the world.
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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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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.
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The Simpsons take up so little time that I'm able to do other things as well.
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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'm a little bit anally retentive, a little bit OCD, but a whole lot clean.
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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.
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I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in.
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We've been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can't do - about what is impossible.
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It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.
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When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you.
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It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.
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Autumn has a hungry heart - September is the beginning of death.
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Tel Aviv appeals to me.
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The highest hope of Socrates’ peers, of young Athenian men, was to serve Athens by dying for her.
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Life is like a piano. The white keys represent happiness and the black keys represent sadness. But as you go through life, remember that the black keys makes music as well.
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Even the mind depends so much on temperament and the disposition of one's bodily organs that, if it is possible to find a way to make people generally more wise and more skilful than they have been in the past, I believe that we should look for it in medicine. It is true that medicine as it is currently practiced contains little of much use.