"You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition." Spoken by Abigail Adams"

-- David McCullough

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“Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.”
“By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.”
“It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs. ... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.”
“Experience is a great teacher, and sometimes a pretty teacher is a great experience.”
“I am consumed with the fear of...”
“Most Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues.”

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“The freedom of patient speech is necessary if the doctor is to get clues about the medical enigma before him. If the patient is inhibited, or cut off prematurely, or constrained into one path of discussion, then the doctor may not be told something vital. Observers have noted that, on average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.”

Source : Jerome Groopman (2008). “How Doctors Think”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it takes twenty years to make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows.”

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