"Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. What mischief have we done under the belief of false facts and false theories! We have assisted in multiplying diseases; we have done more; we have increased their mortality. ... I am pursuing Truth, and am indifferent whither I am led, if she is my only leader."

-- Benjamin Rush

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“In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder”
“One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Somebody's not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery - we're all the same.”

Source : "Aubrey O’Day: ‘Last night I was stolen by a hawk’". PopWrap interview, pagesix.com. October 22, 2009.
“There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.”

Source : "Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church". Book by Peter Kreeft, 2001.
“Grace has uprooted us from a barren wilderness of sin and transplanted us by streams of living water.”
“No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.”

Source : Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.136, Simon and Schuster
“I don't like working out with lots of makeup because I don't like it getting into my pores.”
“I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.”

Source : "Natalia Makarova, Kennedy Center honoree". Interview with Allan Ulrich, www.sfgate.com. December 5, 2012.
“The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.”

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