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Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday oc

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate. – Katherine Dunn

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American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. – Katherine Dunn

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environmental
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The field of Western medicine has seemingly become literally nothing but medicine. Are doctors are on their way out, to be replaced by self-service pharmaceutical vending machines? – Terri Guillemets, “Prescribed,” 2004

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Observation, Reason, Human Understanding, Courage; these make the physician. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. – Anton Chekhov

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Treat the patient, not the Xray. – James M. Hunter

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Nothing requires the architects care more than the due proportions of buildings. – Marcus V. Pollio

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Its like kids playing house: You play the father, Ill play the mother. You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. Its a game – actings a game. – Robert Duvall

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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855

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