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My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#bum #call #change #could #doctor

The goal of religious thinking is exactly the same as that of technological research -- namely, practical action. Whenever man is truly concerned with obtaining concrete results, whenever he is hard pressed by reality, he abandons abstract speculation and reverts to a mode of response that becomes increasingly cautious and conservative as the forces he hopes to subdue, or at least to outrun, draw ever nearer. ↗

— René Girard

#pragmatism #religion #technology #religion

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

#doctor #i #medical #scientist

I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business. ↗

— Lena Headey

#beautiful #been #being #being beautiful #business

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig. ↗

— Marilu Henner

#before #classes #did #doctors #guinea

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed. ↗

— O. Henry

#am #choice #discovering #doctrines #feed

And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#doctrine #numbers #others #over #persons

The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls. ↗

— John Hersey

#blast #body #broke #burns #caused

By the time we went to Doctor Simon I think Barney had been totally disabled for at least six months. ↗

— Betty Hill

#been #by the time #disabled #doctor #had

So it's sheer terror, but then, this is the whole reason that we went so long to Doctor Simons, was to get rid of all these... mixed feelings that we had. ↗

— Betty Hill

#feelings #get #had #long #mixed