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"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."
"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."
"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
"If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I'll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming 'Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?"
"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written."
"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."
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"In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science."
"When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors."
"You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage."
"First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef."
"Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee."
"A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession."
"Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof."
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