The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
From Ashley Montagu
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.
Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.
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