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Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.
If there's one operation for a disease, you know it works. If there are 15 operations, you know that none of them work.
If you are too fond of new remedies, first you will not cure your patients; secondly, you will have no patients to cure.
If I became just a brain in a jar - as long as I can communicate back and forth with people, that would be okay with me.
From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.
Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.
The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.
The secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body.
If we took away the ability to put defibrillators in people in their last years, people would be shouting in the streets.
I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.
Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.
You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy.
Focusing on the Lord and everlasting life can help us not only at Christmas, but through all the challenges of mortality.
I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.
The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.
Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.
While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.
I have not seen much dignity in the process by which we die. The quest to achieve true dignity fails when our bodies fail.
This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.
Its the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago.
A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.
I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage. To use the word 'bad' would be perhaps the understatement of the year. It was dreadful.
If the doctor of today does not become the dietician of tomorrow, the dietician of today will become the doctor of tomorrow.
It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago.
Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.
If one accepts the terms of the covenant and obeys God's law, he or she receives the blessings associated with the covenant.
He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood - both its power and those who bear it.
The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science
We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way norms and standards change.
I dont have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.
I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.
I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.
Keeping divine commandments brings blessings, every time! Breaking divine commandments brings a loss of blessings, every time!
Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.
The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?
If a man is not to take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves to him, what is he to do, or what is he good for?
Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.
In one study, old people assigned to a geriatrics team stayed independent for far longer, and were admitted to the hospital less.
Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.
The temple endowment was given by revelation. Thus, it is best understood by revelation, prayerfully sought with a sincere heart.
I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.
Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.
Faith in God engenders a love for the Sabbath; faith in the Sabbath engenders a love for God. A sacred Sabbath truly is a delight.
You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.
In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.
When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.
The German government has taken energetic measures against the propagation of the defective, the mentally diseased, and the criminal.