Abraham Flexner Quotes
Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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I probably would never be caught wearing a baseball cap. Hats are difficult to me because they tend to be too big for my head. They don't fit right, and I feel ridiculous.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.
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Sometimes directors come to me when I have to play some horrible thing, scary or hysterical or crying; they ask, 'Did you study somewhere to be an actress?' No, this is life. That's why I think I don't want to say you need a really bad experience to be a good artist, but bad experiences in your life say something.
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Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'
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Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.
