"You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori"

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Source : Kenneth Oppel (2012). “This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

Kenneth Oppel

#Blessed Quotes #Medicine Quotes #Failing Quotes

“I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.”
“The very essence of capitalism is under threat as business is now seen as a personal wealth accumulator. We have to bring this world back to sanity and put the greater good ahead of self-interest. We need to fight very hard to create an environment out there that is more long term focussed and move away from short termism.”

Source : "Rio+20: Unilever CEO on the need to battle on to save the world" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2012.
“While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.”
“Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.”
“When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.”
“When, all at once, you find you have something precious you only dimly suspected was to be yours, you almost wish it hadn't come so soon.”
“Zero, zero belief in myself. And it's changed somewhat, but there's still a lot of that in me.”
“She can take a year to read something, whereas I like a book that becomes more important in my life that life itself. When I was in the middle of 'Red Storm Rising' by Tom Clancy - which was not selected for the Man Booker shortlist - you could have taken my liver out and fed it to the dog. And I wouldn't have noticed.”

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