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The field of Western medicine has become literally nothing but medicine. Doctors are on their way out, to be replaced by self-serve pharmaceutical vending machines. ~Grey Livingston


For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. ~Francis Bacon


Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. ~Wilson Mizner


Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law. ~William James, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, 1910


The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart. ~Frederick Denison Maurice


Homecoming means more than kings and queens. ~Author Unknown


You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag. ~Edward Koch


In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert


No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake. ~Elsie de Wolfe (Lady Mendl)


Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. ~Ernestine Ulmer


When we Indians kill meat, we eat it all up.... When we build houses, we make little holes. When we burn grass for grasshoppers, we don't ruin things. We shake down acorns and pinenuts. We don't chop down the trees. ~Wintu Indian, quoted in Julian Burger, The Gaia Atlas of First Peoples, 1990


There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it. ~Irena Chalmers


If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs. ~Oliver Herford


Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth. ~Diane Ackerman


I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. ~James Baldwin


We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul. ~William Shakespeare


It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. ~Joseph de Maistre


We have two lives - the one we learn with and the life we live after that. ~Bernard Malamud, The Natural


It isn't our position but our disposition which makes us happy. ~Author Unknown