Doctors Quotes - Page 13

• Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and well-educated. He's often the personification of culture and refinement. The twentieth-century Uncle Thomas sometimes speaks with a Yale or Harvard accent. Sometimes he is known as Professor, Doctor, Judge, and Reverend, even Right Reverend Doctor. This twentieth-century Uncle Thomas is a professional Negro -by that I mean his profession is being a Negro for the white man.

  Malcolm X

  Uncles, Mean, Men

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• The government has departments to deal with the special interest groups that make themselves heard and felt. A Department of Agriculture cares for the farmers' needs. There is a Department of Health, Education and Welfare. There is a Department of the Interior - in which the Indians are included. Is the farmer, the doctor, the Indian, the greatest problem in America today? No - it is the black man! There ought to be a Pentagon-sized Washington department dealing with every segment of the black man's problems.

  Malcolm X

  Men, America, Health Education

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• If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.

  Hippocrates

  Funny Inspirational, Medicine, Fool

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• Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.

  Hippocrates

  Funny Inspirational, Get Well, Healing

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• The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor's office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Worst Moments, Wife

  "Magic Johnson pushes HIV awareness". Interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• Give an average baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it oughtn't to a doctor should be called in at once.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.92, Jerome K. Jerome

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• A newborn child has to cry, for only in this way will his lungs expand. A doctor once told me of a child who could not breathe when it was born. In order to make it breathe the doctor gave it a slight blow. The mother must have thought the doctor cruel. But he was really doing the kindest thing possible. As with newborn children the lungs are contracted, so are our spiritual lungs. But through suffering God strikes us in love. Then our lungs expand and we can breathe and pray.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Mother, Spiritual, Children

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• From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]

  John Harington

  Honesty, Way, Lawyer

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• Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Evil, Disease, Leisure

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• I like when my man is worldly, know the finer things in life, is well traveled, and educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.

  Kiana Tom

  Men, Things In Life, People

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• Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.

  Al Gore

  Technology, Decision, Sitting

  "Health care returns as an issue" by Bill Schneider, www.cnn.com. October 4, 1999.

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• Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."

  Benjamin Franklin

  Philadelphia, Independence, Liberty

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• When I was born the doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, "Look, twins!"

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Confusion, Looks, Faces

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• I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting and turning, and sometimes shedding its skin, like the serpent that is [the doctors'] symbol.

  Robertson Davies

  Science, Skins, Idiot

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading”, Penguin Group Canada

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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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• Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

  Robertson Davies

  Science, Men, Technique

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• Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits: Keeps his nails clean and is never a burden to anyone. Greatest fault: Lacks family, cheerful spirits, and strong stomach. Greatest and only petition: Not to be buried alive. Greatest sin: Does not worship Mammon. Important events in his life: None.

  Alfred Nobel

  Life, Strong, Science

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• I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to approach research, something there isn't time to teach them in medical school. They don't really learn how to approach a problem, and yet diagnosis is a problem; and I think that year spent in research is extremely valuable to them.

  Gertrude B. Elion

  School, Science, Thinking

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• Tidy fees are the most effective remedy, both for the doctor and the patient.

  Dario Fo

  Patient, Fees, Remedy

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• Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Food, Marching On, Cooking

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• The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Fashion, Fighting, Design

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• I've tried really hard to care about things that were very different from my parents. I was curious if I could care about [money] on some fundamental level, and I couldn't. That wasn't the metric of success I wanted in my life. I've talked about this to my friends who are doctors and whose parents are doctors, or who are lawyers and their parents are lawyers. It's a funny thing to realize I feel called to this work both as a daughter and also as someone who believes I have contributions to make.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Mother, Daughter, Believe

  "Chelsea Clinton Says She Doesn't 'Care About' Money" by Hunter Walker, www.businessinsider.com. June 23, 2014.

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• Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.

  Nancy Reagan

  Daughter, Mother, Medical

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• I once donated a pint of my finest red corpuscles to the great American Red Cross and the doctor opined my blood was very helpful; contained so much alcohol they could use it to sterilize their instruments.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Blood, Alcohol

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• I told my doctor, "I've swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills" and he told me to have a few drinks and get some rest.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Drinking, Sleep, Pills

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