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William O. Douglas

"No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment."

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"No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment."

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"Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning."

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"In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore."

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"It was a long time since he'd done any actual clinical work, and obviously his sojourn among the academics at Saro University had attenuated the professional detachment that allows members of the healing arts to confront the ill without being overwhelmed by compassion and sorrow. He was surprised at that, how tenderhearted he seemed to have become, how thin-skinned."

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Amber Hurdle

"An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand."

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"Medicine also disregards national boundaries."

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"I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation."

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"The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions."
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"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms."
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"At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections."
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"It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off."
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"The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government."
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"The right to revolt has sources deep in our history."
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