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🇦🇹Viktor Frankl

Psychology

1905–1997

"An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. p. 32 in the 1992 edition, , Beacon Press"

"Prevention is within reach of everyone. And here are recommendations: abstain from smoking, eat less, eat mostly vegetarian foods, an active mind and body, and follow individually designed early diagnostic regimens."

"There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists."

"Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement."

"It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual."

"According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment."

"To men of liberal principles and to mankind it is perfectly indifferent whether India is called English or Brahmanical; what they cannot consent to is that the domination be exploitation instead of paternal tutelage."

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🇺🇸Jacob Mendes Da Costa

Medicine

1833–1900

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🇫🇷Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis

Medicine

1787–1872

"All comes from experience, it is true, but experience is nothing if it does not form collections of similar facts. Now, to make collections is to count."

"I used that phrase in 2015 and last year . Like I said at the very beginning, we should avoid throwing a wild card and should just stick to old practices."

"We start from different ideological positions. For you, to be a Communist or a Socialist is to be totalitarian; for me no.… On the contrary, I think Socialism frees man."

"Rahul Gandhi wears a janeu . We want to ask him - he is going to Ujjain - what kind of 'Jenau Dhari' are you? What is your gotra?"

"Alongside their work on pure economic theory, the classical political economists engaged in a parallel project: to promote the forcible reconstruction of society into a purely market-oriented system."

"This mountain, I thought, was like education: The higher you climbed, the farther you could see."

"Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that “extreme”."

"All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know."

"My dream when I was a child was to be a medical doctor so that I could help people suffering from diseases."

"...a peculiar condition of the nervous system, induced by a fixed and abstracted attention of the mental and visual eye, on one object, not of an exciting nature."

"In this fool's paradise he drank delight."

"“Our people in Sham prepare yourselves for a long battle with the Crusaders and their allies the Shi’ites and Alawites,"

"Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age."

"I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one."

"You believe whatever you hear? Then hear from me!"

"Even if my country remains at war with yours . . . remember ... I am not your enemy."

"If there is one operation for a disease, you know it works. If there are fifteen operations, you know that none of them work."

"By not first explaining the bones, anatomists delay the inexperienced student and, because of the difficulty of the subject, deter him from a very worthy examination of the works of God."

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🇺🇸Henry Jacob Bigelow

Medicine

1818–1890

"Anti-cruelty societies should be encouraged. The progress of science has suffered little by their existence, and humanity has gained much."

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🇺🇸Charles Horace Mayo

Medicine

1865–1939

"I abhor vivisection. It should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil."

"The constant refrain that bringing our troops home would demonstrate a lack of support for them must be one of the most amazing distortions ever foisted on the American public."

🇬🇧John Zephaniah Holwell

"A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less."

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Galen

Medicine

"The fact is that those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!"

"To secure the greatest amount of pleasure with the least possible outlay should be the aim of all economic effort... when everyone does this the natural order, instead of being endangered, will be all the better assured."

"Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts."

"I simply couldn't believe what I was seeing...All the doctors and nurses who saw yesterday's news were furious...Zhang Wenkang is ... abandoning even his most basic standards of integrity as a doctor."

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