Gary Taubes Quotes
The scientific obligation is first to establish the cause of the disease beyond reasonable doubt.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.
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Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.
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I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.
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You do feel a certain obligation to shows that raise your profile like 'Downton' has. But there are definitely other exciting opportunities out there.
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Being an only child is a disease in itself.
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All disease has a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the body one must first 'heal the soul'.
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Oliver . . . well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?
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I've met many young women who are HIV positive and courageously fighting the disease. Their determination to live a full life and see their children live in a better world is deeply inspiring to me.
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I do have an obligation to make sure that I am following some of the rules. I can't simply ignore laws that are out there.
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In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether it is like the faces of healthy people, and especially whether it is like its usual self. Such likeness will be the best sign, and the greatest unlikeness will be the most dangerous sign. The latter will be as follows. Nose sharp, eyes hollow, temples sunken, ears cold and contracted with their lobes turned outwards, the skin about the face hard and tense and parched, the colour of the face as a whole being yellow or black.
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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
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The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.
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The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.
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The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success is our national disease.
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A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.
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Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health.
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For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves.
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The most valuable insight I have made about how people make decisions is that when they become skilled they don't have to make decisions - choices between options. Instead, they can draw on experience and the patterns they have acquired to recognize what to do, ignoring other options. This is the basis of the Recognition-Primed Decision (RPD) model my colleagues and I described thirty years ago.
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Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.
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As we face our own fears, we give others the courage to face theirs, too.
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The scientific obligation is first to establish the cause of the disease beyond reasonable doubt.
