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Surgeon Inspirational Quotes (1266)

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Golf courses are becoming far too long. Twenty years ago we played three rounds of golf a day and considered we had taken an interminably long time if we took more than two hours to play a round. Today it not infrequently takes over three hours.
Alister MacKenzie
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The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his work indistinguishable from nature itself.
Alister MacKenzie
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I have always wanted to live where one could practice (golf) shots in one's pajamas before breakfast.
Alister MacKenzie
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When I've seen an opportunity I haven't sat down and called a committee meeting, We've gone and done it.
Fred Hollows
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Our forefathers would think it's time for a revolution. This is why they revolted in the first place... They revolted against much more mild oppression.
Ron Paul
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Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time, the thread that has run through each succeeding wakeful hour of the individual.
Wilder Penfield
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Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.
Wilder Penfield
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The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.
Wilder Penfield
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Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed.
Wilder Penfield
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Although the content of consciousness depends in large measure on neuronal activity, awareness itself does not.To me, it seems more and more reasonable to suggest that the mind may be a distinct and different essence.
Wilder Penfield
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Electricity is but yet a new agent for the arts and manufactures, and, doubtless, generations unborn will regard with interest this century, in which it has been first applied to the wants of mankind.
Alfred Smee
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The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only interference from experience stored and not actively recalled.
Wilfred Trotter
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An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen and the number of cases assimilated is the measure of experience.
Wilfred Trotter
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The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps be too fanciful to say that a new idea is the most quickly acting antigen known to science.
Wilfred Trotter
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If the doctor of today does not become the dietician of tomorrow, the dietician of today will become the doctor of tomorrow.
Alexis Carrel
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Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.
Alexis Carrel
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It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.
Alexis Carrel
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The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.
Alexis Carrel
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Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.
Alexis Carrel
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Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.
Alexis Carrel
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There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.
Alexis Carrel
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The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at regular intervals, give the cells what they require for nutrition, and as far as we know, the pulsation of life can go on forever.
Alexis Carrel
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To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know
Alexis Carrel
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Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
Alexis Carrel
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