"First, it must be a pleasure to study the human body the most miraculous masterpiece of nature and to learn about the smallest vessel and the smallest fiber. But second and most important, the medical profession gives the opportunity to alleviate the troubles of the body, to ease the pain, to console a person who is in distress, and to lighten the hour of death of many a sufferer."

-- Rudolf Virchow

#Pain Quotes #Science Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“Mattia was right: the days had slipped over her skin like a solvent, one after the other, each removing a very thin layer of pigment from her tattoo, and from both of their memories. The outlines, like the circumstances, were still there, black and well delineated, but the colors had merged together until they faded into a dull, uniform tonality, a neutral absence of meaning.”
“I actually got dared to audition for the dance team. All my track-and-field buddies dared me to audition, and I was one of the few guys who did it.”
“It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.”
“I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before â€¦ I was in a position to take those pictures. I felt an obligation to do them.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.”
“Whether she won or lost, she would continue to wrestle with life. It would not be with her own life alone but with all of life. Something had finally been released within her. And there it was, the sea.”

Source : Clarice Lispector (1986). “An Apprenticeship, Or, The Book of Delights”, Austin : University of Texas Press
“I was pretty awkward when I was young, but I was never afraid of putting myself out there. I would say stupid things but then they would laugh at me and possibly find it endearing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The reason mountain climbers are tied together is to keep the sane ones from going home.”

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