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• Physicians heal, nature makes well.
• Felix Plater notes of some young physicians, that study to cure diseases, catch them themselves, will be sick, and appropriate all symptoms they find related of others to their own persons.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect. 3, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2...
• Nature (reality) is just as absolutist as chess, and her rules (laws) are just as immutable (more so) -- but her rules and their applications are much
  much more complex, and have to be discovered by man....
• Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians. Chinese Proverb
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. -- Anthony Burge
• There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.
  They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave....
• How do you stop an elephant from charging? Take away his credit cards.
• Q: How do you stop an elephant from charging? A: Take away his credit cards.