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“If you are too fond of new remedies, first you will not cure your patients; secondly, you will have no patients to cure.”

Source : The Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery with Additional Notes and Cases by Frederick Tyrell, Vol. 2. Thomas and George Underwood, London (1824) (Description of the first ligation of the aorta in (1817) for left femoral aneurysm)
“We either misdirect or depress great amounts of energy in order to keep ourselves from feeling pain, including what we feel in the moment and being who we are in the moment.”
“The trouble with climate change is it's an extraordinarily diverse and complex issue, but for example if the BBC would let me make some of the programmes I'd like to make on climate change, I bet you there would be a change of emphasis.”
“The big Wall Street firms, seemingly so shrewd and self-interested, had somehow become the dumb money. The people who ran them did not understand their own businesses, and their regulators obviously knew even less.”
“Done is better than perfect.”

Source : Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.139, Knopf
“When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns.”
“For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear the leaves and listen to the rain, and look to the day when it is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight.”
“My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.”

Source : "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

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