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I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be

I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering. – Ralph Merkle

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I dont think theres any independent cartoonist whose stuff I dont like or respect in at least some way or another. Were all marginal laborers – were practically medical oddities – so I dont see why we cant all be nice to each other. – Chris Ware

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Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves. – Tipper Gore

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On bad days, I think Id like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, Yeah, right, Im going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school. No. No. – Tama Janowitz

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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. – Edmund Burke

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The beginning of thought is in disagreement — not only with others but also with ourselves. – Eric Hoffer

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Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), Thus Spake Zarathustra, translated by M.A

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