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When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.

— Martin H. Fischer Fischerisms (1944)

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes — so check your value to the community.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.

Fischerisms (1944)

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