"There cannot always be fresh fields of conquest by the knife; there must be portions of the human frame that will ever remain sacred from its intrusions, at least in the surgeon's hands. That we have already, if not quite, reached these final limits, there can be little question. The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will be forever shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon."

-- John Eric Erichsen

#Wise Quotes #Hands Quotes #Knives Quotes

“Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.”
“I could have signed for Newcastle when I was 17, but I decided I would be better off at Carlisle. I'd had a drink that night.”
“The one question you can't ask is, "Is this feature actually good or not?"”

Source : "Lecture 16: How to Run a User Interview". Emmett Shear's "How To Start a Startup" lecture to the class at Stanford University in Stanford, California, genius.com. 2014.
“The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.”
“Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.”
“I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well.”

Source : "Belle and Sebastian". Interview with Gretta Cohn, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2006.
“And therefore you who think so basely of the Gospel and the professors of it, because at present their peace and comfort are not come, should know that it is on the way to them, and comesto stay everlastingly with them; whreas your peace is going is going from you every moment, and is sure to leave you without any hope of returning to you again. Look not how the Christian begins, but ends.”

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