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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

"It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going."

"The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!"

"If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone."

"When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me."

""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."

"First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck."
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"First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef."

"Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science."

"A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill."

"In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science."

"Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind."

"Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof."

"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."
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