Quote by Lewis Thomas
Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have b

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction. – Lewis Thomas

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We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earths creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. – Lewis Thomas

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Future
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The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. – Lewis Thomas

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Truth
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The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. – Lewis Thomas

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Poetry
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Since we cant know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned. – John Holt

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Ive found that when the markets going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You wont get there by reading Now is the time to buy. – Peter Lynch

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Future

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work. – Anna Freud

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Future

A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album. – Bo Bennett

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Future

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Every child begins the world again…. – Henry David Thoreau

What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong, have respect for my people, my family, my nation and mankind. – Alexis Arguello

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A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker. – Ambrose Bierce

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Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! – Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!

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