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In its own unhurried way, age soundlessly and with persistence treads ever closer behind us on slippered feet, catches up, and finally blends itself into us—all while we are still denying its nearness.

— Sherwin B. Nuland The Art of Aging (2007)

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Tradition is a persuasive teacher, even when what it teaches is erroneous.

Doctors (1988)

Poets, essayists, chroniclers, wags, and wise men write often about death but have rarely seem it. Physicians and nurses, who see it often, rarely write about it.

How We Die (1994)

The tendency toward mysticism is ingrained in human nature. Superstition, religion, and medicine have made their long journey together, and even now are unable to let go of one another's hands.

The Mysteries Within (2000)

The later decades of a life become the time for our capabliites to find an unscattered focus, and in this way increase the force of their concentraled worth.

The Art of Aging (2007)

If there is one operation for a disease, you know it works. If there are fifteen operations, you know that none of them work.

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