Medicine Quotes - Page 38

• True medicine is to defend human life in any circumstances and not for political reasons or for reasons of any other kind, it is really to help, that is true solidarity.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Political, Helping, Kind

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In the field of medicine, if you're sick you need a doctor. A doctor has already studied how to deal with your ailments, and human beings are imperfect. There any many ailments of the psyche and the soul that need to be treated, and the serious murshid, or spiritual master, is also really a doctor of the soul: a person who can heal the wounds of the soul in the same way as a medical doctor takes care of our physical problems.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Doctors, Sick

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The Church offers the medicine of the divine mercy so that healed souls can grasp the truth that will liberate them in the fullest meaning of human freedom.

  George Weigel

  Soul, Church, Mercy

  Source: eppc.org

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• Just as there are many more Californians now to be found in the temples of Kyoto or the villages of Bali or the mountains of the Himalayas than ever before, what is also exciting is that one can just go downtown Santa Barbara and find ayurvedic medicine, Thai restaurants, and Japanese cars in abundance.

  Pico Iyer

  Kyoto, Santa Barbara, Car

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• We live on the leash of our senses.

  Diane Ackerman

  Philosophy, Perception, Five Senses

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.18, Vintage

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• All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Philosophy, Tired, Soma

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• Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

  Maya Angelou

  Philosophy, Blessing, Appreciate

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• Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

  Hannah Arendt

  Philosophy, Perception, Soma

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Perception is reality.

  Lee Atwater

  Philosophy, Reality, Perception

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• To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

  Charles Babbage

  Branches, Chemistry, Natural

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes”, p.12

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• If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election!

  Michele Bachmann

  Obamacare, Done, Want

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• I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Athlete, Psychology

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• Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.'

  Tony Blair

  Technology, People, Mind

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• I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.

  Zach Braff

  Mean, People, Mental Health

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• A balanced diet may be the best medicine. I was eating too much good eats. But people consider that part of your job, you know? Eat. And I do!

  Alton Brown

  Jobs, People, May

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• Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

  Warren Buffett

  Economic, Barrels, Unthinkable

  Warren Buffett's annual letter to shareholders., www.berkshirehathaway.com. February 28, 2009.

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• Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there's the two snakes on the side of the ambulance. The caduceus, or the staff of Hermes, there's the two snakes going up it, which means that the venom can also be healing.

  Nicolas Cage

  Healing, Mean, Snakes

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• Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

  Maximes et pensees (1825)

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• Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Death, Physicians, Literature

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

  Denis Diderot

  Memories, Philosophy, Feelings

  "D'Alembert's Dream". Book by Denis Diderot, 1830.

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• I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Yesterday, Helping, Tomorrow

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• They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.

  Black Elk

  Uncles, Lying, Men

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• Any time I find medicine that's helpful, I share it with everyone I know.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Helpful, Share, Knows

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• Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Laughing, Stuff, Release

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• There are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that I hope, in the future, our medical community can look at, because I would absolutely go to those alternatives first before I went back to Western medicine.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Plant Medicine, Community, Firsts

  "Interview with Melissa Etheridge; Interview with Rielle Hunter". "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. August 25, 2012.

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