"The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Practice Quotes #Medicine Quotes #Safety Quotes

“I go to great pains to find the best yogurt and granola.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There are five dark matters and five lamps. Love of this world is darkness, and the fear of Allaah is its lamp. Sin is darkness, and its lamp is repentance. The grave is darkness, and its lamp is 'none has the right to be worshipped but Allaah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allaah.' The hereafter is darkness, and its lamp is the good deed. The Siraat is darkness, and its lamp is certainty of faith.”
“I find myself eating different kinds of chicken each and every day, even if it's by surprise.”
“If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it.”
“What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?”

Source : Jane Addams (2010). “Peace and Bread in Time of War”, p.85, University of Illinois Press
“Those with power are frequently least aware of -- or least willing to acknowledge -- its existence [and] those with less power are often most aware of its existence.”

Source : Lisa Delpit (2013). “Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom”, p.37, The New Press
“Decisions exist only in the present.”
“To achieve vital harmony in a picture it must be constructed out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke.”

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