"Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all."
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"I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice."
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"The advice "you never go broke taking a profit" is foolish."
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"Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control."
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"In dreams begin responsibilitiy."
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"Wait for the season when to cast good counsels upon subsiding passion."
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"Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent."
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"Bosom upon my counsel; You'll find it wholesome."
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"Direct not him whose way himself will choose; 'Tis breath not lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose."
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"I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing."
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"What else can I tell you? It seems to me that everything has its proper emphasis; and finally I want to add just one more bit of advice: to keep growing, silently and earnestly, through your whole development; you couldn't disturb it any more violently than by looking outside and waiting for outside answers to questions that only your innermost feeling, in your quietest hour, can perhaps answer."
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"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."
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"Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right."
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"Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves."
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"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice."
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"The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us."
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"Listen to the advice from the one who's already achieved your goal"
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"All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem."
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"The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you something is broken that you can fix."
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"Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life."
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