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Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings. Steven Pinker

Life Old Goodness Sense Meaning Of Life Our Topic Moral Worthy Morality Gives Conception Close Any Human Just Human Beings Psychology Meaning Meaning Of Us Beings Each

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. Thomas Browne

Life Death Living Shadow Shadows Souls Itself Departed

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker. Thomas Huxley

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. Thomas Huxley

When you are entrusted with an assignment, you do your best. Tu Youyou

Best You Entrusted Do Your Best Your Assignment

Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden. Vikram Patel

Work Health People Problem Burden Addiction Prohibition Pleasure Moral Give Health Problem Does Reduce Proven Substances Which Many Strategies

All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown. William Harvey

Unknown Remains Know Still Than Infinitely Less

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. William Osler

Wise Thought Nothing Say Given Conceal Look Grunt Speech

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. William Osler

Buy Books Easier Simpler Absorb Read Contents Than Them Much

If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough. Alan Kay

Time You Enough Aiming High Percent Fail Least

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Life Water Mother Matter Medium No Life Without Matrix

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself. Alexis Carrel

Hurt People Other Everyone Himself Greater Makes Than Effort Help

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. Alfred Nobel

Good Satisfied Out Thousand Only Ideas Am Turns

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked. Alfred Nobel

People Believe Living Crooked Only Lawyers Make Line Straight Straight Line

You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live. Andrew Weil

Health You Healing Care Depend Live Sick System Maintain Protect Well Health Care Health Care System How Making Up Afford Get Capacity Choices Body Your Keep Right Innate Present

In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created. Andrew Weil

Justice Gardening Garden People World Cause Reward Random Sense Ways Punished More Makes Effect Labor Often Rewarded Senseless Then Created Large Gardens Utterly Extension

The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first major scientific breakthroughs that provided a specific target for blood-screening tests and opened the doorway to the development of antiretroviral medications. Anthony Fauci

Cause First AIDS Proof Development Opened Major Scientific Were Provided Tests Discovery Target HIV Doorway Breakthroughs Specific Medications

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease. Ashley Montagu

Health Science Doctor Has-Been Been Cure Disease Taught Interested Public

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality. Ashley Montagu

Women Natural Reality Superiority Fact Acknowledged Socially Biological

Most of us have to spend a lot of energy to learn how to drive a car. Then we have to spend the rest of our lives over-concentrating as we drive and text and eat a burrito and put on makeup. As a result, 30,000 people die every year in a car accident in the U.S. Astro Teller

People Result Car Rest Drive Accident Year Energy Every Our Spend Our Lives Eat Put Most Learn Makeup How Lot Text Die Then Us Car Accident Lives

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin. Austin O'Malley

You Sheep Skin Down Well Get Stop Taxes

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