"Doctors are taught in medical school that people ususally underreport their alcohol and drug use, so we genreal double the amount we're told. Don't be insulted if your doctor asks follow-up questions about yout drinking. We're trying to be diligent so we don't miss an alcohol or drug disorfer that could be amenable to treatment."

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Source : Source: www.oprah.com

Danielle Ofri

#Drinking Quotes #School Quotes #People Quotes

“When they can't win a debate (can they ever?), leftists deploy what the late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called the argument from intimidation. Instead of trying to refute the other side, they label their opponents' position evil, attribute sinister motives to its adherents, and charge that its proponents are encouraging violence.”
“Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.”
“Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently produced on the way to producing something else but is the relentless object of all military activity.”

Source : Elaine Scarry (1985). “The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World”, p.85, Oxford University Press
“If you are really working on something intensely, your social skills fall away and you are not fit to be brought out into public.”

Source : Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
“A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.”

Source : Edwin H. Friedman, Margaret M. Treadwell, Edward W. Beal (2007). “A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix”, p.201, Church Publishing, Inc.
“One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, lets all be friends in Washington philosophy.”
“You can get to everywhere from almost anywhere.”
“To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think that when she was with other people she was yet mindful of me, seemed to me the summit of human ambition - I am sure it was the summit of mine.”

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