"I a short life with width to a narrow one with length."

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“Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.”

“Ibn Sina from the Encyclopedia of Islam”

“Catholic Encyclopedia: Avicenna”

“Avicenna/Ibn Sina at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy”

“Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.”

“God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change. The secret conversation is thus entirely spiritual; it is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.”

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"I wonder sometimes when I look into the faces of some of these overworked people, if there is a sort of a sleeping potion taken just prior to going to Church, so they can rest in peace and not feel di…"

— J. Golden Kimball

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— Hubert Humphrey

Politics1911–1978

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Education1907–1981

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"The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not be conducted by democratic standards without it."

— William O. Douglas

Law1898–1980

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