"Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise."
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"Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world of evolution 'and unchanging causation'. It invited new ways of thinking. It demanded a new rationale for belief. With science's truths the only accessible ones, 'blind faith' was no longer admirable but 'the one unpardonable sin'."
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"I do walk with a bit of a swagger. I do swear a lot. And people are going to be offended by that. But in this PC world, you can't be honest."
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"I was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every single one of them."
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"They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won't do a better job of it."
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"Everyone has to decide how they're going to appear in their lives, how they're going to put themselves out there to the world."
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"Go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold."
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"The world is certainty a sudden place."
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"While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world."
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"Everything in this world depends upon will."
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"If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world."
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"I feel very blessed to have been involved with some of the most complex surgical procedures in the history of the world."
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"The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world."
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"No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world."
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"Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?"
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"Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients."
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"It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world."
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"Death is a fisherman, the world we see His fish-pond is, and we the fishes be; His net some general sickness; howe'er he Is not so kind as other fishers be; For if they take one of the smaller fry, They throw him in again, he shall not die: But death is sure to kill all he can get, And all is fish with him that comes to net."
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"Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them."
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"You will see in this my notion of good works, that I am far from expecting to merit heaven by them. By heaven we understand a state of happiness, infinite in degree, and eternal in duration. I can do nothing to deserve such rewards... Even the mixed imperfect pleasures we enjoy in this world, are rather from God's goodness than our merit, how much more such happiness of heaven!"
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