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

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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)

Astley Cooper

#Science Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Patient Quotes

“We may faint and we may sink Feel the pain and near the brink But the dark begins to shrink When you find the one who knows”

Source : Song: He Knows, Album: I Will Follow, 2015
“Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character and low intelligence. Let us face the truth: Democracy, like spitting in public or the Roman games, is the proper activity of the lower intellectual and moral classes. It amounts to collusion in one's own suckering.”
“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”

Source : "My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget : A Collection of Quotations". Book by Dorothy Winbush Riley, 1993.
“There are students whose religious upbringing is going to make them feel uncomfortable in a class where certain kinds of secular ideas are presented. There are students whose ideas about history or sexuality are going to be similarly challenged to question, to affirm or to change those ideas. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be exposed to them; that's why they're at school. That's why they come to university: to be taught how to think well and critically about material that they're being presented with. But it's the teacher who is certified to teach them how to do that.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“I don't use a wallet. My money is just free-flowing in my bag.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.”

Source : Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.10, Simon and Schuster
“I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.”

Source : "'I want to make the world better'". Interview with Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.
“I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.”

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