Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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• I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.

  

  Ice Cube
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• Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.

  

  P. T. Barnum
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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.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
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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?

  

  Laura Wade
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• To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.

  

  Tabare Vazquez
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• If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
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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.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Good
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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
  • Step
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  • Medicine

• 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
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• 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
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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.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • History
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• I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.

  

  Patch Adams
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• Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

  

  Ovid
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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.

  

  Kenneth Williams
  • Medicine
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• Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.

  

  Lillian Russell
  • Air
  • Body
  • Blow

• 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.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Today
  • Responsibility
  • Suffering

• My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to practice longer. I ran up and down the stairs of different stadiums. I didn't feel the need to cover up the fact that I was losing my hair or it was graying. When you're on a team, age is only a factor when you're talking in the locker room.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Up
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• He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Night
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• I want solutions, not excuses. Whine to your shrink.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Want
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• Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side by side for us; The martyr band That hallowed our land With the blood they shed in a tide for us?

  

  Abram Joseph Ryan
  • Blood
  • Land
  • Heroes

• When I was in high school, I loved paintball. I saved up my allowances and started my own paintball supply company. Everyone thought I was just some obsessed kid, but today the company is one of the biggest paintball suppliers in Canada.

  

  Ryan Holmes
  • School
  • Today
  • Company

• Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Medicine
  • Ingredients
  • Bloodletting