"Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile."

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Source : John Hersey (1946). “Hiroshima”, Knopf

John Hersey

#Life Is Short Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Patient Quotes

“Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.”

Source : Brent Weeks (2009). “The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel”, p.84, Hachette UK
“At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.”
“Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.”

Source : "Fictional character: Michael Corleone". "The Godfather: Part III", www.imdb.com. 1990.
“Think of yourself as an insensitive, nitpicking, irritable fool to use the product.”
“I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.”
“If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely worthwhile goals that can be attained, then even if we have less energy at our command and fewer material goods available, we might nevertheless still increase our satisfaction in life.”

Source : Richard Heinberg (2011). “The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality”, p.259, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
“My mom can still slap me silly and my dad still threatens to ground me.”
“Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.”

Source : Rudolf Virchow (1958). “Disease, Life, and Man: Selected Essays”, p.26, Stanford University Press

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