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Wilfred Trotter has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without…
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If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to…
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The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn…
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It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those…
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The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of…
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The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again;…
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An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number…
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It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind.…
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The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But…
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The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.
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The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists…
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The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states…
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Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as…
— Leigh Brackett
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The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again;…
— Wilfred Trotter
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The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule…
— Henry Grady Weaver
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It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments,…
— Jean Liedloff
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We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Anger is an alarm system, signaling the presence of nothing more than fear. It tells us we are working at cross-purposes to…
— Jesse D. Jennings
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It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with…
— Indira Gandhi
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Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve…
— Joan Didion
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Imagine that the world is made out of love. Now imagine that it isn’t. Imagine a story where everything goes wrong, where…
— Richard Siken
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Because everyone in the world has the power to edit, Wikipedia has long been plagued by the so-called edit war. This is…
— James Gleick
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