Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Society is a hospital of incurables."
Hospitals quotes
Hospitals
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George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb"
Anais Nin
Writer, Diarist
"Nowhere is inhumanity more revealed than in hospitals."
Laurent Lamothe
Politician
"It makes every Haitian proud to have such a hospital."
Josh Gates
Television presenter, producer
"When traveling in rural Africa, it's important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things are apt to get worse."
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"When I was in the hospital after I was shot they gave me drugs, but it was so great to get off those."
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"Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe."
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