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“A touching and compassionate yet completely professional account of the psychological--indeed spiritual--dimensions of the doctorDpatient relationship that make the difference between fixing and healing.”

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Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all…

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Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around severalmothers, all…

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In order to be treated fairly and equally, chidren have to be treated differently.

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In a cross-cultural study of 173 societies (by Herbert Barry and L. M. Paxson of the University of Pittsburgh) 76 societies typically had mother…

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If it's working, keep doing it. If it's not working, stop doing it. If you don't know what to do, don't do anything.

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Children are born as individuals. If we fail to see that, if we see them as clay to be molded in any shape we…

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Intern is not just a gripping tale of becoming a doctor. It's also a courageous critique, a saga of an immigrant family living (at…

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It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it…

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“At the conclusion of all our studies we must try once again to experience the human soul as soul, and not just as a…

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I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your…

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Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…

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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a…

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The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.

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With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his…

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A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is…

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I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a firsthand account…

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The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no…

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You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take…

Jack LaLanne

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No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts…

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God puts you where God needs you. You are where you are supposed to be. The job you are doing may not be any…

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