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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.»
Author: Earl Wilson
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bills, handwriting, neatly, prescription, prescriptions, typewriting, typewritten
«Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.»
Author: Isaac Newton
(Mathematician, Physicist)
| Keywords:
frequency, gracious, medicines, physician, prescribes, prescription, prescriptions, proportions, Trials
«Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of specu»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
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Speech
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abuse, height, mistaken, mysteries, prescription, prescriptions, vague
«A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.»
Author: Russell Baker
(Columnist, Journalist)
| About:
Happiness,
Problems,
Solution
| Keywords:
prescription, prescriptions
«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.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
antiquities, antiquity, conservatism, disavow, disavowed, disavowing, disavows, discards, offers, preparation, prescription, prescriptions, redress, redressed, redressing, rejected, shrinks
«Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
collection, collections, collectively, fatal, medicine, prescriptions, uncertain
«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.»
Author: Norman Cousins
(Editor, Essayist)
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gravitational, human body, prescriptions, pull in
«He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably.»
«The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Authority
| Keywords:
accidental, coeval, confounded, Laws of nature, prescriptions, procured, the laws of nature, veneration, with reason
«I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
| Keywords:
down, eyeglasses, prescription, prescriptions, ran, suddenly, walking
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