"It was the sheer variety of the pain that stopped me from crying out. It came from so many places, spoke so many languages, wore so many dazzling varieties of ethnic costume, that for a full fifteen seconds I could only hang my jaw in amazement."

-- Hugh Laurie

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“Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.”
“I try to avoid political ties.”
“Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.”

Source : Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1976). “The Female Imagination”
“Some of the craziest people Ive met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people Ive met.”
“...I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been...”
“In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.”
“A mouse in the paws is worth two in the pantry.”
“I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting something. What treasures I discovered in my own soul - where are they all? I have exchanged them for the world's coin, given my frankness, my first passion - and for what? For bitter disillusionment, for the knowledge that all is deception, all is brittle, that one can place trust neither in oneself nor in others - and I have come to fear both others and myself. I have not been able, along with this analysis, to accept the trifles of life and be content with them, as many others do.”

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