One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps. – Georg Groddeck, The Book of the It, 1923
We “need” cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer. – Gilbert Adair, “Under the Sign of Cancer,” Myths and Memories, 1986
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time one must always go forward – or go back. He who now talks about the freedom of the press goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. – Vladimir Lenin
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of do it yourself. – Marshall McLuhan
