Richard Asher famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Despair is better treated with hope, not dope.
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Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all her plates back in the plate-rack-to make a generally tidy appearance.
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For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.
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It is not always worth the discomforts of major surgery to get minor recovery.
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t.
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Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.
-- Richard Asher
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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I pissed away over ten million dollars On dope and crack I passed away deader than a door knob But now I'm back
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Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.
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If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.
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All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.
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But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don't worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It's been a long century, and we've had enough of them.
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I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —
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