Quote by Lewis Thomas
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. – Lewis Thomas

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The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance. – Lewis Thomas

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Education
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Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself. – Lewis Thomas

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Nature
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Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath. – Lewis Thomas

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Grammar
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First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, thats a joke and everybody in the world knows it. – Norman Schwarzkopf

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I ended the war a horse ahead. – Nathan Bedford Forrest

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War

What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America. – Louis Farrakhan

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War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war. – Anatole France

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Truth is the daughter of time. – Proverb

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Id get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. Its a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it. – Sara Blakely

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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. – Bella Abzug

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I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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