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"Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on medicine    Share

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"The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of the church to sexuality. If any single man was responsible, it was Augustine of Hippo who murdered his way to sainthood spouting on about the sins located in his genitals."

Jarman, Derek on aids    Share

"The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically."

Streisand, Barbara on aids    Share

"Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style."

Auden, W. H. on slavery    Share

"My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation."

Gunn, Thom on aids    Share

"From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on aids    Share

"Today's medicine is at the end of its road. It can no longer be transformed, modified, readjusted. That's been tried too often. Today's medicine must DIE in order to be reborn. We must prepare its complete renovation."

Delort, Maurice on medicine    Share

"While Homeopathy itself is a perfect science, its truth is only partially known. The truth itself relates to the Divine, the knowledge relates to man."

Kent, James Tyler on medicine    Share

"There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine."

Lieberman, Gerald F. on medicine
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"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."

Voltaire on medicine
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"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."

Shedd, John A. on safety    Share

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I'm male, single from South Africa and made my book on 29th October 2009.

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I'm a Paramedic by trade and now run / own a, 'Life Support Training Institution' . My business concentrates on legislative, (Occupational Health and Safety Act required), training - First Aid level 1,2&3; Fire Fighting; Fire Marshal; S.H.E. Representative; Health and Safety and AIDS Awareness courses. In my spare time I enjoy volunteering for the Emergency Services and reading all the medical reference material I can lay my sticky paws onto.

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