Quotes
Authors
Christiaan Barnard

"I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures."

Source : Christiaan Barnard (1979). “The best medicine”

Christiaan Barnard

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“Everest? Don't forget it's really just a big pile of rocks.”
“There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.”
“Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean you're wrong.”
“There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human duty: the duty to accept the consequences of our actions.”
“We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.”
“There wasn't a better teacher or mentor out there than Reggie White, on or off the field.”
“I started my professional career before the blogosphere existed in any sort of meaningful way. I think that my approach as a writer was certainly freer because I wasn't worried, I didn't have commenters on me right from the get-go. I didn't have this instant-reaction culture that young writers have to deal with now. I had different things - I was listed in the phone book and people would look me up and call me and yell at me, but that was about as bad as it got.”

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“She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, â€˜All are shadows!â€”all are passing!â€”all is past!”

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