Galen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.
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There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
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If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it.
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Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.
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For 14 years, I'd been on medication for the pinched nerve, the arthritis, the muscle spasms in my neck, and I'd lost my tolerance for pills. If I had a single drink, the alcohol, on top of the pills, would make me groggy.
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When we're born. . . All of us. . . Are free. People who reject that, no matter how strong they are. . . Don't matter.
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I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.
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Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
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Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?
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...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.
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The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.
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Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.
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To think twice is quite enough.
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People get nervous when things move to Friday. Friday has become a landscape where shows just don't do very well as business for the network.
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It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.
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Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.
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Certain mystical philosophers have personified Destiny, and from this point of view each man's personal destiny is his archetype or "other self"--his "angel"--with whom he must be reunited if he is to rise above his fragmentary identity as a worldling and become whole, as he is (and always has been) in the mind of God.
