Hippocrates Quotes
Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
Quotes to Explore
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No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.
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I don't talk about my personal life in the press; that's how I kept my wedding a secret.
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Most cornmeal producers don't tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.
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One must not confuse the fight against corruption with the persecution of the rich or wealthy families.
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I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.
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When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters.
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I was raised Catholic... I fell in love with certain ideals.
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Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to become aware that we are living on a planet that is going at enormous speed through the universe.
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I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.
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Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.
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Countries have improved since SARS. They understand the importance of responding and being as prompt and transparent as possible.
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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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I followed the war wherever I could reach it.
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They (FEMA officials) just don't have their act together, ... They didn't know where their evacuees are; they didn't know how many each state had. Those are basic questions. You need competence at the top to manage these large-scale disasters.
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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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Like so many survivors of childhood abuse, Marilyn exemplified the power of the life force, the will to live and to own one's life, the energy that counteracts the annihilation of trauma. I gradually came to realize that the only thing that makes it possible to do the work of healing trauma is awe at the dedication to survival that enabled my patients to endure their abuse and then to endure the dark nights of the soul that inevitably occur on the road to recovery.
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Love, first begotten of all created things.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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I trust I may be enabled in the treatment of patients always to act with a single eye to their good.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
