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“If you have been given a talent, exercise it freely and happily like the sun: give everyone from your splendour.”

“What else is the help of medicine than love?”

“Belief and work, knowledge and action are one and the same thing.”

“What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.”

“As you talk, so is your heart.”

“The art of medicine has its roots in the heart. If your heart is false, then also the doctor in you is false. If it is fair, then also the doctor is fair.”

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"Nothing may happen without wyrd, for it is present in everything, but wyrd does not make things happen. Wyrd is created at every instant, and so wyrd is the happening."

— Brian Bates (psychologist)

Psychology1947

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"One day in August, 1940, an article in the New York Times caught my eye. It was the announcement that a test platoon of American parachutists had been formed at Fort Benning, Georgia, and had gone int…"

— Edson Raff

Military1907–2003

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"I hate mice. The mouse involves you in arm motions that slow you down. I didn't want it on the Macintosh, but Jobs insisted. In those days, what he said went, good idea or not."

— Jef Raskin

Science1943–2005

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"But that’s why I’m here. In this room, all of you, all of us, can do so much more together than any one person can do alone. And I hope that thought bolsters you as much as it does me. I hope the work…"

— Elliot Page

Entertainment1987

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