"If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse."

-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Christian Quotes #Nursing Quotes #Doctors Quotes

“But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope and which is of very little use to anybody.”
“When it gets difficult is often right before you succeed.”
“He who whets his steel, whets his courage”
“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.”
“I wake up every morning singing The Star-Spangled Banner.”
“It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.”
“There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.”

Source : James D. Watson (2009). “Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science”, p.326, Vintage
“I was perhaps one of the few people that were not part of [Pablo Escobar] group of yes-men because I was not a direct beneficiary of the violence that his actions generated.”

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