"If the doctors cure then the sun sees it. If the doctors kill then the earth hides it. The doctors should fear arrogance more than cardiac arrest."
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"If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again."
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"I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age."
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"I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend."
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"Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week."
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"Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself! (from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)"
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"He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man."
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"Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place."
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"Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle."
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"Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray. Chasuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chasuble: And often, I've been told, not even to her."
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"Time is generally the best doctor."
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"A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness - incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic."
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"I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away."
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"I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green."
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"If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so."
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"I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open; your field is the entire human condition."
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"We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens."
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"The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education."
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"I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments."
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"I know a doctor who can give you a shot and you'll get over that cold you've got and get better in a day."
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