Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Have we become ... hypochondriacs luxuriating in health anxieties precisely because we are so healthy and long-lived that we have the leisure to enjoy the luxury of worrying.
-- Roy Porter (The Greatest Benefit to Mankind)
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it.
-- Herman Melville (Moby-Dick)
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Failure is the cost you pay to be right.
-- Seth Godin ((Seth's Blog))
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I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
-- NYC Detective
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Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
-- Philip K. Dick
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Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all levels. Work comes to depend on an ability to understand, respond to, manage, and create value from information.
-- Shoshana Zuboff
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-- Aristotle
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As regards the celebrated "struggle for life," it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The unquestioning, devoted patient has been replaced by an informed skeptical consumer.
-- Whitney Addington (AAMC 2000 Address)
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