"There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one can direct a method of cure to a person labouring under disease, without thinking, that is, without theorizing; and happy therefore is the patient, whose physician possesses the best theory."

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Source : Erasmus Darwin, Robert Waring Darwin (1794). “Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life ...”, p.2

Erasmus Darwin

#Thinking Quotes #Physicians Quotes #Disease Quotes

“It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.”

Source : James Wolcott (2013). “Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs”, p.390, Anchor
“The reward of child rearing is spending the rest of your life proudly knowing this person you helped guide. Let him be himself.”

Source : "Teens" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. June 08, 2012.
“They do not air 'GH' in Holland, so I don't get recognized. But the Dutch are wonderfully unimpressed with celebrity, so even if the show did play over there it probably wouldn't affect things much. It's a wonderful life and I am so blessed.”

Source : "Exclusive: General Hospital's Anthony Geary On Life, Death and the Future of Luke and Laura". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. October 9, 2013.
“'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.”
“"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..."”

Source : Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “The Master and Margarita”, p.191, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble.”
“Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible.”
“For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.”

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