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"The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."
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"I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum."
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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."
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"At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point."
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"When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene."
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"Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957."
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"I always begin to compose the melody first."
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"My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts."
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"My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964."
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"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."
Life

"Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought."
Thought

"Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants."
Common sense

"To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all."
Books

"The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases."
Life

"The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow."
Age

"The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it."
Success

"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

"The future is today."
Future

"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
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