Quote by Lewis Thomas
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If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society. – Lewis Thomas

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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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Future
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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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Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that youd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise. – Lewis Thomas

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Statistics
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Society
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We have to challenge the whole idea that its acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and dont have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives. – Iain Duncan Smith

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Society

Fame consists in dying in action and getting your name misspelled on the casualty lists. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Society

I dont have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong. – Charles Kuralt

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Society

But, actually, so many of the clerics that Ive met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society. – Rowan Atkinson

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Society

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You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure. – Margaret Thatcher

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It takes a loose rein to keep a marriage tight. – John Stevenson

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Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. – Charles Dickens

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Wise Words

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. Its like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly. – Haruki Murakami

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