"The old fashioned family physician and general practitioner ... was a splendid figure and useful person in his day; but he was badly trained, he was often ignorant, he made many mistakes, for one cannot by force of character and geniality of person make a diagnosis of appendicitis, or recognize streptococcus infection."

-- Charles Loomis Dana

#Mistake Quotes #Character Quotes #Ignorant Quotes

“There are other concerns in this state [of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania], which is one of the prettiest. It's also one of the poorest, where people here are making less than the national average. Unemployment is higher than the national average, and a lot of the young people, especially, have left because there just aren't jobs and that sort of thing. So you have that going on, the feeling that that hasn't really changed in years or at least with their help - with the last state government.”
“When someone discovers something in their lives that really interests them, then they should be content with doing that - without having to go and lie on a beach once a year.”
“The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.”
“I warm up. I do about 50 push-ups with my trainer and my security just to get pumped up before a show, get our energy up. And then I just go have fun.”
“I WAS a mermaid in my past-life! I definitely was. I don't know why I'm obsessed with them that much, which is why I think that somehow in my past-life I must have just lived underwater or something. Maybe I was a fish or a dolphin, but I do believe in mermaids.”
“There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.”
“I am constantly amazed when I talk to young people to learn how much they know about sex and how little about soap.”

Source : Billie Burke, Cameron Shipp (2016). “With Powder on My Nose”, p.21, Pickle Partners Publishing
“Those who have the youth on their side control the future.”

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