"The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood."

-- Dennis Potter

#Pain Quotes #Loss Quotes #Eden Quotes

“If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.”
“I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and especially their negative emotional buttons. Because words soak up emotional connotations and are processed involuntarily by the listener, you can't will yourself not to treat the word in terms of what it means.”
“Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.”
“Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical science to the present moment, a single correct idea has ever emanated from conjecture: it is right therefore, that those who are studying their profession should be aware that there is no short road to knowledge; and that observation on the diseased living, examination of the dead, and experiments upon living animals, are the only sources of true knowledge; and that inductions from these are the sole bases of legitimate theory.”

Source : A Treatise on Dislocations and Fractures of the Joints
“I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling ...”
“Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him for a wedding present, he thanked them for thanking him and there was no end to the exchange but death.”
“What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.”
“I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.”

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