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I believe that big choices should be made in conditions of total awareness. Enlisting a newborn in any religion is a subtle abuse for me.

— Umberto Veronesi

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I have become convinced that every religion expresses the need for a certain population at that historical moment.

The very principle of the hospital must not revolve around the needs of the doctor but those of the patient.

The commitment of a medical class more sensitive to human aspects is necessary, which must care not only about the body, but also about the mind. The mind is the place where medicine is perceived.

Homosexual love is the purest love, unlike heterosexual love, which is instrumental to reproduction.

If you are a good conformist and respect the rules, no ideas come.

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

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