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You'll never learn medicine with books or without them.

— George E. Burch

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Nothing makes you more humble in medicine than the autopsy table.

Words are like numbers, if you say 2, you mean 2. You don't mean 3.

The trouble is no one thinks anymore. Creative thinking is limited to a few. To sit or lie and think is a pleasant hobby.

No data is better than wrong data.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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