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.

  

  Paracelsus
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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
  • High
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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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  • Best
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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
  • Greatest
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• I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.

  

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

  

  Ovid
  • Health
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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
  • Specialists
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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

• Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: It's painful, and it's the last resort for nations.

  

  Rashid al-Ghannushi
  • Medicine
  • Normal
  • Painful

• In medicine, there's a fairly large but still finite body of knowledge that you need at hand for most of your daily work. It takes a few years to learn it, but once it's there, it's there. With writing, on the other hand, every new book - indeed, every new story - is a fresh and terrifying reinvention of everything.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Knowledge
  • Learn
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• I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Family
  • Money
  • Done

• A man's legacy is determined by how the story ends.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
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• A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Truth
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• Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Medicine
  • Ingredients
  • Bloodletting