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"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."
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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
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"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."
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"I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir."
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"Manage yourself first and others will take your orders."
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"I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it."
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"When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio."
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"But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions."
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"Hang 'em first, try 'em later."
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"When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'"
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"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."
First
"He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all."
Books
"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely."
Experience
"It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents."
Books
"Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert."
Practice
"Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease."
Life
"No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher."
Success
"It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has."
Disease
"There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta."
Disease
"The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases."
Life
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