"I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle."

-- Atul Gawande

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“Strength, strength it is that we want so much in this life, for what we call sin and sorrow have all one cause, and that is our weakness. With weakness comes ignorance, and with ignorance comes misery.”
“Business plans are the tool existing companies use for execution. They are the wrong tool toÂ searchÂ for a business model.”
“No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.”
“Children become more liberal partly as a reaction to their parents and partly through education. Education tends to make people a bit softer.”
“I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants”
“He said, Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.”
“The trouble is that we do not know whether it has delivered better outcomes or not in services. After more than a decade, the time is right now to carry out a study like this and see if devolution is delivering where it counts.”
“I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform with the league's new dress code, .. Iverson and other NBA players have suggested that they will not abide by the league's dress code, and Bodog.com will offer to reimburse any fines levied, and match the payment with a donation to each player's charity of choice.”

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