"Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick."

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Source : Thomas Sydenham, Kenneth Dewhurst (1966). “Dr. Thomas Sydenham, 1624-1689: His Life and Original Writings”

Thomas Sydenham

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“I've already exceeded my expectations for myself. I'm one of the most influential people! I mean come on! I wanted to be... I never thought the things I've experienced in my life, I didn't think that was the life that I was gonna get to live.”
“Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.”
“Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder,”
“Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, the ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm, big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.”

Source : Henry Ossawa Tanner, Anna O. Marley (2012). “Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit”, p.115, Univ of California Press
“Everything has a price... No matter if it's fortune, fame or your life. I understood later that it's all about paper, Everything has a fee in the land of the free.”
“Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering those dreams again. Freud, too, believed that the psyche retained archaic vestiges, remnants of our earlier mental world. But for Freud these were a burden we were forced to repress. Jung instead would see them as a reservoir of vital energy, a source of meaning and power from which, through the over-development of our rational minds, modern mankind has become divorced.”
“When listening to the sound material, we metamorphose the inside into an outside. This notion of metamorphosis is one of the principles that leads the course of the musical suite, reflecting changes (fluidsolid passages: water/ice/fire) or movements (ebb/flow/wave, inspiration/expiration) or inside-outside passages (door/individual/crowd). Thus, the perceived object is not entirely what we would have liked it to be. Our music brings us closer to some while it takes us away from others: each with their own inside.”
“The game has evolved over the years, and I don't think we have as a country. In other countries they have, and they adjust much quicker than our boys.”

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