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"A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat."
"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
"Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom."
"Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves."
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"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."
"The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases."
"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."
"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle."
"There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs."
"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
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