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- To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
- Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)
- Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.
- Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005), The Crucible, act II
- I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
- Martha Washington (1732 - 1802)
- Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - - the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.
- Donald H. Rumsfeld (1932 - ), Department of Defense news briefing, February 12, 2002
- I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Timequake, 1997
- When you're part of a team, you stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.
- Yogi Berra (1925 - ), "When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It" -- Ch. 3
- The jungle is dark but full of diamonds...
- Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005), Death of a Salesman
- I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
- When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
- Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), Tamerlane, Part II
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