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“Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.”

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“...the irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it.”

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Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

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Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never…

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The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem…

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I don't suppose God laughs at the people who think He doesn't exist. He's above jokes. But the devil isn't. That's one of his…

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Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

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“My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.”

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In a government like ours, the Crown is the abiding and unshakable element in government; politicians may come and go, but the Crown remains…

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The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.

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There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a…

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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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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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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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