"In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life."

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Source : "Literature about medicine may be all that can save us" by Andrew Solomon, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2016.

Oliver Sacks

#Life Quotes #Gains Quotes #Disease Quotes

“Always attack, Never defend.”

Source : "Election Outlook 04 - Fred Barnes and Paul Begala debate" by Jeff Blogworthy, www.freerepublic.com. September 17, 2004.
“The point is not for women simply to take power out of menâ€™s hands, since that wouldnâ€™t change anything about the world. Itâ€™s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.”
“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”
“I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.”

Source : Joshua Slocum (2009). “The Annotated Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.2, Sheridan House, Inc.
“During the air war of 1944, a four-man combat crew on a B-17 bomber took a vow to never abandon one another no matter how desperate the situation. The aircraft was hit by flak during a mission and went into a terminal dive, and the pilot ordered everyone to bail out. The top turret gunner obeyed the order, but the ball turret gunner discovered that a piece of flak had jammed his turret and he could not get out. The other three men in his pact could have bailed out with the parachutes, but they stayed with him until the plan hit the ground and exploded. They all died.”
“Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.”

Source : "De L'Amour" (On Love) by Stendhal, (Ch. 17, footnote), 1822.
“Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.”

Source : Orlando Aloysius Battista (1981). “Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary”, Perigee
“We play short songs and short sets for people who don't have a lot of spare time.”

Source : "Ramones: 'We play short songs for people who don't have a lot of spare time' - interview from the vaults" by Alan Betrock, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2013.

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