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The use of birch is not to be deplored. All the
best men in the country have been beaten, archbishops, bishops, and even deans.
Without sensible correction they could not be the men they are today.
-Attributed to Michael S. Carey,
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Life is movement. Stiffness and stasis lead to death.
-writer/orthopedic surgeon Jose Pujalte Jr., in his book,
Doctor on Call: A Medical Anthology:
Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes:
He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases.
-Lewis Carroll, novelist,
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Pain-has an Element of Blank-
It cannot recollect
when it began-or if there were
A time when it was not.
-Emily Dickinson, American poet
A whipping never hurts so much as the thought that you are being whipped.
-novelist Edgar Watson Howe in
Country Town Sayings
Significant pain isolates you...but under certain circumstances, it may be all you've got, and after great loss, you must use whatever's left, even if it isolates you from anyone else.
-novelist Russell Banks in
The Sweet Hereafter
The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
-Rebecca West,
novelist, in The Salt of the Earth
When disease process progresses to the severe stage, no matter how much medication or therapy you give [to the patient] these will not be enough to alleviate the pain. So this is where joint replacement surgery comes in.
-Dr. Peter Bernardo, head of arthroplasty unit, University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital
We've made great medical progress in the last generation. What used to be merely an itch is now an allergy.
-Anonymous
As of now, we are not after the cure. Just imagine if you have a disease where there's no cure. What is important [is that] there is quality of life.
-Allergy specialist Benigno Agbayani
of
Dr. Victor Potenciano Medical Center
Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say "Bless You."
-Bernard Levin, British journalist and author,
The Times (London)
A lifestyle check is to corruption as a Pap smear is to cancer. But I insult Pap smear, which is probably a better method for detecting cancer than a lifestyle check is to detecting corruption.
Columnist Conrado de Quiros, "There's the Rub,
Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 20, 2003
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