"There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death."

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Source : The Medical Career and Other Papers 'Medicine at the

Harvey Cushing

#Flesh Quotes #Heirs Quotes #Ultimate Quotes

“You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less.”
“I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.”
“Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.”
“Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective.”
“Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.”
“All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.”
“Nothing can better express the feelings of the scientist towards the great unity of the laws of nature than in Immanuel Kant's words: "Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing awe: the stars above me and the moral law within me."... Would he, who did not yet know of the evolution of the world of organisms, be shocked that we consider the moral law within us not as something given, a priori, but as something which has arisen by natural evolution, just like the laws of the heavens?”
“I'm flatulent in many languages.”

Source : John R. Erickson (1993). “The Phantom in the Mirror”, Maverick Books (TX)

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