"We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself."

-- Paul Dudley White

#Practice Quotes #Medicine Quotes #Important Quotes

“All objects exist in a moment of time.”
“If you want to get positive results you have to refuse to think negative thoughts by substituting them with constructive ones. When you develop a positive attitude toward life, your life will start having a positive result.”
“My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.”
“The gains from technology must be channeled to a broader base of the population than has benefited so far.”

Source : "Where Will All the Workers Go?" by Nouriel Roubini, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2015.
“And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.”
“If you have to do something, write me a funny AIDS play. Sure you can. It's the biggest joke played on us since sex itself - and with the longest punch line.”
“I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs.”
“So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.”

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