"The USDHEW calculates that 7% of all patients suffer compensable injuries while hospitalized .....One out of every five patients admitted to a typical research hospital acquires an iatrogenic (Caused by the treatment process) disease, one case in thirty leading to death. Half of these episodes result from complications of drug therapy; amazingly, one in ten come from diagnostic procedures."

-- Ivan Illich

#Dark Quotes #Drug Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they donâ€™t have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace.”

Source : Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.19, Multnomah
“In Berkeley, California is no sense of the "white way being the right way." Parents also come in every variety - mixed race marriages, gay partners, divorced moms. We all love our children and want to do right by them, and that's what matters most.”
“The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in the fabric; it can even, after a time, cope with major disasters like floods, fires, and earthquakes. What nature cannot cope with is the steady undermining of its fabric by the activities of man.”

Source : Gerald Durrell (1989). “The Amateur Naturalist”, Alfred A. Knopf
“Enlightenment is not the process of learning 'new' information. It is the process of 'reminding' ourselves that the answers are already 'within our consciousness'. All knowledge, all energy, all information is within us, not outside of us. it always has been and always will be.”
“I'm Irish and very proud of being Irish, but as an actor, your extraction should be secondary, really. You should be able to embody whatever character it is, wherever the character comes from. That's always been important, for me. I'm an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor.”
“I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?”
“The wants of mankind are supplied and satisfied out of the gross values produced and created, and not out of the net values only.”
“I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.”

Source : "Mikhail Kalashnikov: 'I sleep soundly'" by Nick Paton Walsh, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2003.

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