"Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics."

-- Paracelsus

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“I was a creative player, but I got some bad injuries early on and I decided that if this was a jungle we were playing in then it's better to be a lion than a lamb.”
“If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept--and then I could triumphantly announce that 'rewards work.' But as with punishments, they can never help someone develop a *commitment* to a task or action, a reason to keep doing it when there's no longer a payoff.”

Source : Alfie Kohn (2006). “Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason”, p.32, Simon and Schuster
“If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.”
“What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength.”
“There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire.”

Source : "There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire" by Ewen MacAskill, Simon Tisdall, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2006.
“No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.”
“The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.”
“What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that she might push him away.”

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