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“Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity. ”
― Hippocrates

“Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.”
― Hippocrates

“As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.”
― Hippocrates

“Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.”
― Hippocrates

“Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you’ve believed in all your life aren’t true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from each other—child out of the womb, friend away from friend, moving from each other, each through his own pathway toward the goal-box of solitary death. But this was the counterweight, the act of binding and holding. As when men to keep from being swept overboard in the storm clutch at each other’s hands to resist being torn apart, so our bodies fused a link in the human chain that kept us from being swept into nothing.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon