"A respect for authority is the basis for most medical education. Students may become so used to memorising that they become prey to the illusion that the reason for learning to parrot lectures and textbooks is that they are the 'truth'."

-- Petr Skrabanek

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“No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.”
“But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed wasâ€”perhaps rightlyâ€”scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work and origins unless they were his friends, he was a genius, and Voss one of the finest works of the modernist era and of the past century.”
“When I look at great singers like Sinatra, Bennett and (Tom) Jones, I see great performers that can really move an audience. I really consider myself a troubadour privately and a song-plugger publicly.”
“I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.”
“You aren't angry " "You must be joking " she said dryly. "I'm alive Nicholas. And I'm immortal like you. This rocks”
“Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.”

Source : Farewell Remarks to White House Cabinet and Staff, delivered 9 August 1974
“The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models -- that we might not need animals in the flesh.”
“The common denominator is a love of music.”

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