"Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational."
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"I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone."
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"I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money."
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"In vegetables and fruits, God has infused medicinal power to help in overcoming disease. Even these, however, have but a limited potency. The organs of the body are essentially sustained by the energy of God, and the person who employs various methods to increase this energy will have at his command a greater power for healing than is afforded by any medicine or diet."
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"The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted."
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"I love doctors and hate their medicine."
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"I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged."
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"The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians."
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"I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion."
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"Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine."
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"In my medicine cabinet, the winter fly has died of old age."
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"Perception is reality."
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"I don't know the nuts and bolts of writing. I studied medicine. I was a pre-med nerd. So everything I learned, I know about writing is very instinctive."
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"Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it."
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"The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone; and as long as you follow the rules of your profession, you needn't worry about the consequences. But the problem with the powerful and rich is that when they are sick, they really want their doctors to cure them."
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"Nothing, in all of the Universe is more delicious than to be in this physical body allowing the fullness that is you to be present in the moment."
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"When you are in vibrational harmony, your body produces whatever it needs to remain in perfect balance."
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"Eat few suppers, and you'll need few medicines."
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"We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant. He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der Post. He was bowled over by the charms of homeopathic medicine. He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way"
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"We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite. We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education."
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