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• I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them.

  William Shakespeare

  Work, Shoes, Danger

  William Shakespeare, David Daniell (1998). “Julius Caesar: Third Series”, p.158, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.

  Jacques Pepin

  Hands, Class, Important

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• Supposing you've got an acute appendicitis. You've got to be operated on tonight. Would you like to have a surgeon who's read some books of anatomy and knows how to do that operation - or would you prefer to have a surgeon who refused to read all books about anatomy and relied on his own instinct?

  David Ogilvy

  Book, Tonight, Instinct

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• The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sick, Soul, Humanity

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• War is the only proper school of the surgeon.

  Hippocrates

  War, School, Total War

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• There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems obvious: the first study divine design, the second study human undesign.

  Peter Kreeft

  Atheist, Design, Brain

  Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.27, Ignatius Press

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• If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Legs, May, Safe

  From his Preface on Doctors published with The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)

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• The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.

  Mason Cooley

  Knives, May, Retreat

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• If the love of surgery is a proof of a person's being adapted for it, then certainly I am fitted to he a surgeon; for thou can'st hardly conceive what a high degree of enjoyment I am from day to day experiencing in this bloody and butchering department of the healing art. I am more and more delighted with my profession.

  Joseph Lister

  Art, Healing, Degrees

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• Greed plays a role in causing unnecessary surgery, although I don't think the economic motive alone is enough to explain it. There's no doubt that if you eliminated all unnecessary surgery, most surgeons would go out of business. They'd have to look for honest work, because the surgeon gets paid when he performs surgery on you, not when you're treated some other way. In pre-paid group practices where surgeons are paid a steady salary not tied to how many operations they perform, hysterectomies and tonsillectomies occur only about one-third as often as in fee-for-service situations.

  Robert S. Mendelsohn

  Thinking, Practice, Play

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• Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of a horse-drawn vehicle, being treated for disease by a doctor or surgeon rather than a witch, and being killed with an automatic pistol or shell in place of a dagger or a battle-axe.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Horse, Science, Men

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• There cannot always be fresh fields of conquest by the knife; there must be portions of the human frame that will ever remain sacred from its intrusions, at least in the surgeon's hands. That we have already, if not quite, reached these final limits, there can be little question. The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will be forever shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.

  John Eric Erichsen

  Wise, Science, Errors

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• It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.

  Robert Hooke

  Funny, Humorous, Believe

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• It’s such a fun job, and it can be silly and light and about making people laugh. I think I was doing it a disservice by thinking it’s not something ultimately important. I always was saying, ‘I’m not saving lives; I’m not a brain surgeon.’ And that’s true—I’m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that’s a pretty important task.

  Emma Stone

  Jobs, Fun, Silly

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• You [men] are our protectors, is not true; for if you were, who would there be to protect us from?

  Mary Edwards Walker

  Inspiring, Men, Ironic

  "Hit".

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• Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

  Alexis Carrel

  Motivational Sports, Men, Work Out

  Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”

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• It is above all man's social position that decides whether he will sublimate his sadism as a butcher, surgeon, or policeman.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Men, Sadism, Social

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• Any idiot would know women's needs are simple. All we want is your basic millionaire brain surgeon criminal lawyer great dancer who pilots his own Lear Jet and owns seafront property. On the other hand, things being what they are today, most of us will settle for a guy who holds down a steady job and isn't carrying an infectious disease.

  Linda Sunshine

  Jobs, Women, Simple

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• She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill.

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  Love You, Knives, Leeches

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• I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs.

  Gary Busey

  Jobs, Men, Doctors

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• I don't think it takes a brain surgeon to understand how to read a story.

  Uma Thurman

  Thinking, Brain, Stories

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor.

  Ken Kercheval

  Dad, Doctors, Generations

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• A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past.

  Rick Riordan

  Past, Hands, Rotting

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• Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do not simply advertise for a share of a market that already exists: Their advertisements create new markets. It is a boom industry because it is influentially placed to create its own demand through the pairing of text with ads in women's magazines. The industry takes out ads and gets coverage; women get cut open. They pay their money and they takes their chances. As surgeons grow richer, they are able to command larger and brighter ad spaces.

  Naomi Wolf

  Cutting, Space, Roles

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• A Russian cosmonaut and a Russian brain surgeon were once discussing Christianity. The brain surgeon was a Christian, but the cosmonaut wasn’t. ‘I have been in outer space many times,’ bragged the cosmonaut, ‘but I have never seen any angels.’ The brain surgeon stared in amazement, but then he said, ‘And I have operated on many intelligent brains, but I have never seen a single thought.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Christian, Angel, Intelligent

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