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• The mistake consists in our splitting into two what is really and absolutely one. Is not life one as we live it, which we cut to pieces by recklessly applying the murderous knife of intellectual surgery?

  D.T. Suzuki

  Mistake, Cutting, Knives

  D.T. Suzuki (2011). “Essays in Zen Buddhism”, p.19, Souvenir Press

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• Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile.

  Theodore White

  Long, Political, Too Late

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• At its heart, the quest that trans people are on is to have the same thing that straight — and gay — people have: the ability to wake up in the morning and be ourselves, without permission, without apology. Our lives should not be defined by wigs, or surgery, or which bathroom we use. Our lives should be defined by our identities, and the truth we bear in our hearts.

  Jennifer Finney Boylan

  Morning, Heart, Apology

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• Yesterday, Attorney General John Ashcroft had surgery to remove his gall bladder. Doctors say the surgery was difficult because Ashcroft refused to take his clothes off.

  Conan O'Brien

  Doctors, Clothes, Yesterday

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• What makes you think painting is any less difficult than brain surgery?

  Christopher Willard

  Thinking, Make You Think, Brain

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• The trouble with plastic surgery is that after 10 years, gravity wins out and you have to have another one in a year or so.

  Linda Evans

  Winning, Years, Trouble

  "Linda Evans Says No To More Plastic Surgery" by wenn.com, November 27, 2000.

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• Today, in the Twenty-First Century, an age of jet aircraft, personal computers, wireless telecommunications, laser surgery, and incipient space travel, the mentality with which many presumably educated, intelligent people approach matters of economics and business is, however astonishing it may seem, still that of the Dark Ages.

  George Reisman

  Dark, Intelligent, Space

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• Senator Kerry recovering very nicely after having shoulder surgery. The doctors said the senator was fully awake, lucid and joking after the surgery was done, but cautioned that that was just the drug. He went back to his boring self soon afterward.

  Jay Leno

  Doctors, Self, Drug

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• Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

  Jay Samit

  Self, Disruption, Scalpels

  Twitter post from May 20, 2016

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• Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it.

  Nora Ephron

  Mean, People, Denial

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• I had plastic surgery last week. I cut up my credit cards.

  Henny Youngman

  Cutting, Credit, Lasts

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• Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.

  Richard Selzer

  Flower, Technology, Medicine

  Richard Selzer (1996). “Letters to a Young Doctor”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There was this one time in Vegas when I took four Victoria's Secret models and did one gram off each of their bodies within, like, 45 minutes. I declared myself King of Vegas and decided to remodel my hotel room with my bare hands to resemble King Louis XIV's bedroom at Versailles. Knocked down two entire walls, and later had four knuckle surgeries. Still wasn't as high as Rob Ford.

  Charlie Sheen

  Kings, Wall, Vegas

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• I believe if somebody chooses plastic surgery it should be for themselves, not for anyone else.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Believe, Plastic, Should

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• I would like to think that Ive left the world of cardiovascular surgery better than when I found it. That would be a suitable epitaph.

  C. Walton Lillehei

  Thinking, Would Be, World

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• At 10, I was intrigued by surgery, I wanted to be a surgeon for a long time. I love doctor shows and surgery shows. Blood is not an issue for me. I even took pictures once of me getting my blood taken.

  Jessica Biel

  Taken, Doctors, Blood

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• I'd like to refocus everyone's attention away from the Kardashians and onto Doctors Without Borders or aid workers. Let's redefine scandal. Scandal is not who so-and-so is dating; scandal is the fact that 1.2 million people are still living in tents in Haiti, and cholera is rampant because Nepalese U.N. soldiers dumped s- from their Porta-Potties into the river. That's a f-ing scandal. If the average 15-year-old was hearing about that instead of so-and-so's plastic surgery or cheating in Hollywood, I'd feel better about our future.

  Olivia Wilde

  Cheating, Feel Better, Rivers

  "Olivia Wilde Knows What A Real Scandal Is" by Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. July 13, 2011.

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• I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning.

  Rachael Ray

  Running, Morning, Years

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• Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Moving, Always Trying, People

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• It's tricky to say 'never,' but I will never have plastic surgery.

  Lili Taylor

  Plastic, Plastic Surgery, Tricky

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• I'm all for women who get plastic surgery, because plastic surgery allows you to make your outer appearance resemble your inner appearance — fakeWe have shows like Extreme Make-Over: “I
  don't want to develop a personality, just cut my face! Stretch it and staple it. Now I'm happy, or at least I look like it.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Humor, Cutting

  "True Stories I Made Up". Audio CD Album, 2005.

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• If you want to become an Islamic radical and have yourself circumcised, I invite you to come to Moscow... I would recommend that he who does the surgery does it so you'll have nothing growing back afterward.

  Vladimir Putin

  Islamic, Doe, Moscow

  "The EU's Chechnya challenge" by Andrew Osborn, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2003.

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• In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept surgeon cut both himself and, somehow, a bystander while blundering about during an amputation. Both men contracted an infection and died, as did the patient. Nightingale commented that it was the only surgery she'd ever seen with 300 percent mortality.

  Sam Kean

  War, Cutting, Men

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• I didn't have to undergo reconstructive surgery.

  Eva Herzigova

  Reconstruction

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• It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.

  Hippocrates

  Cancer, Dark, Long

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