"Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome."

-- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

#Glasses Quotes #Physicians Quotes #Stones Quotes

“My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, "There's only one way you can beat your cancer.""What's that?""You have to find out what caused it.”
“I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.”
“In 1999, Purdue Pharma the maker of OxyContin went on a massive marketing campaign. Back then, prescription opioids were only used in extreme cases - post surgery, end of life care, cancer pain. We use a clip from an ad in the film where they had a doctor saying, "Less than 1 percent of people who use prescription opioid long-term will become addicted" - that changed the mindset of physicians across the country.”
“The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.”
“You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.”
“Daisy chains are pretty fragile, and it turns out that families are too.”
“Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.”
“I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint nor dance. Their medium is Being. Whatever their hand touches has increased life.... They are the artists of being alive.”

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