Prescriptions Quotes

• The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter.

  Evan Esar

  Laughter, Medicine, Needs

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• The best sculptor is the one who can most accurately reproduce in marble the image that he sees before him. The good cook follows the recipe. The pharmacist can utilize the many years of training of the most famous doctors from the best medical schools, if he just knows how to follow a prescription. Someone has said that science is just a collection of successful formulas.

  Sterling W Sill

  School, Successful, Doctors

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• A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.

  John Taylor

  Writing, Men, Doctors

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• In sales, as in medicine, a prescription before diagnosis is a mistake in the arts.

  John Naisbitt

  Art, Mistake, Medicine

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• You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.

  Earl Wilson

  Doctors, Handwriting, May

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• Prescription drug prices are skyrocketing and one-third of all seniors depend on Social Security for at least 90% of their income.

  Bernie Sanders

  Senior, Drug, Income

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• I opposed No Child Left Behind, I opposed the Medicare prescription drug bill, I opposed the Wall Street bailout. What the American people are starting to see is that Republican, Republicans on Capitol Hill get it and the Democrats, from the White House to Capitol Hill, just don't get it.

  Mike Pence

  Children, Wall, White

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill.

  Mike Pence

  Wall, Drug, Bills

  Interview with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. November 7, 2010.

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• Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Democracy, Process, Courses

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• There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, People, Want

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• Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they're supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care.

  Michael Moore

  Elderly, Sick, Parent

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• More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.

  Dan Lipinski

  Senior, Long, Drug

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• I believe in prescription drugs. I believe in feeling better.

  Denis Leary

  Believe, Feel Better, Drug

  "I Feel Good" by Denis Leary, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2010.

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• We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

  Carl Sagan

  Motivational, Education, Ignorance

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.49, Ballantine Books

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• Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

  Bill Gates

  Responsibility, Giving, Way

  Interview with Dana Goldstein, www.thedailybeast.com. January 24, 2010.

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• The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.

  Al Franken

  Drug, Pieces, Might

  "If You Ever Wonder Whether We Really Need Public Financing of Elections in this Country" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2007.

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• I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Medicine, People

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• To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while.

  James Caan

  Funny, Divorce, Playboy

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

  Norman Cousins

  Life, Hope, Powerful

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• The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Life And Death, Needs, Information

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• In a sense, I feel like the job of the artist at all times is essentially the same, which is simply to tell the truth. I mean, I'm nervous about any prescriptions for what a writer should or shouldn't do.

  Tony Kushner

  Jobs, Mean, Artist

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Preparation, Progress

  'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 2, ch. 5

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• Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film Funny Girl at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace.

  Beth Ditto

  Girl, Believe, Funny Motivational

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2007.

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• Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Weed, Marijuana, Six

  "Melissa Etheridge's anthem of hope". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. October 16, 2005.

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• However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Senior, Drug, Towns

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