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When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.
Ah, Caviar! I keep on eating it, but can never get my fill. Like olives. It's a lucky thing it's not salty.
Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.
So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.
This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.
The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.
The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.
I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.
The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.
In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.
Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
The economic misery: who passed NAFTA? You know, Bill Clinton signed that with Hillary's [Clinton] support.
Is such an alliance helpful to us in this day and age? Are we creating a cold war in order to justify NATO?
We have to find climate-friendly ways of encouraging economic growth. The good news is we think they exist.
To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.
No one can be free unless he is independent... In reality, he who is served is limited in his independence.
At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name.
One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?
I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.
Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.
To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.
I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.
I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.
I'm tired of dreaming. I'm into doing at the moment. It's, like, let's only have goals that we can go after.
In essence the whole thing of life is to just keep trying to do good things. Just do good things for people.
Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists.
I feel so bad for him [Bernie Sanders]. It's really unfortunate that he's been caught in the crossfire here.
Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.
It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.
Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism!
The discovery of God begins at understanding that He ought to exist, and ends at knowing how He could exist.
As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.
Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.
As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.
I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.
In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.
Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.
I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.
If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.
The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.