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Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock.
Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.
Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.
if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.
Getting through the day becomes more important than living a long life when you have no one else to live for.
Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in public.
When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience
We call for a bailout for an entire generation that is basically held hostage by unpayable student-loan debt.
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.
I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.
If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.
I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.
Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights.
Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.
Without enough nitric oxide, your arteries can stiffen, raising blood pressure and your risk of heart attack.
Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.
The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.
I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.
I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.
The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
The grave, where sets the orb of being, sets To rise, ascend, and culminate above Eternity's horizon evermore.
Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?
Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them.
Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.
No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear.
We've got a big happy, one corporate family now uniting the corporate Democrats and the corporate Republicans.
In my experience what I'm hearing from people now is that they're just desperate to hear about something else.
There is no evidence, that I am aware of, that points to a link between vaccines and developmental disability.
By the time we complete the care for the wounded soldiers, $6 trillion, that's $50,000 per American household.
Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.
The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable.
We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.
We are overwhelmed as it is, with an infinite abundance of vaunted medicaments, and here they add another one.
As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.
Every coming year is as bad as the previous one, the only difference being that in most cases it is even worse.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.
Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted.
Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way
By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia.
Conventional cancer therapy is so toxic and dehumanizing that I fear it far more than I fear death from cancer.