"Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray."

-- Rene Leriche

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“If I can enjoy a joke at the expense of another; if I can in any way slight another in conversation, or even in thought, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”
“Every collaboration helps you grow.”
“The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.”
“I do think, where would kids be if it weren't for you and for the good pediatricians, and for the good parents? I passionately believe in sitting a child on your lap and tracing the lines of the book with your finger, and they can read before they know they can, if you bother enough. I did it with my kids, and they're doing it with their kids now.”
“Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us.”

Source : James H. Billington (1991). “The Intellectual and Cultural Dimensions of International Relations: Present Ironies and Future Possibilities”
“November 18. . . I dig musicians, I feel they have the most to offer me mentally and emotionally because they think basically along the same lines that I do; extremely creative people. Music is Life. As Captain Beefheart once said 'God is a perfect musical note.”
“War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.”
“Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.”

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