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• Marijuana is beneficial to many patients
• Given a choice between hearing my daughter say "I'm pregnant" or "I used a condom", most mothers would get up in the…
• We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.
• I want to make it as hard as possible. Gun owners would have to be evaluated by how they scored on written…
• Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I…
• The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.
• Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things…
• The evidence is overwhelming that marijuana can relieve certain types of pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms caused by such illnesses as…
• You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated.
• Doctor, I have more education than most white people.
• You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk…
• We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.

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