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—Indira Gandhi, 1955
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To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
—Pablo Picasso, 1964A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
—Pericles, c. 450 BCTo endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688The doctor occupies a seat in the front row of the stalls of the human drama, and is constantly watching and even intervening in the tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies which form the raw material of the literary art.
—W. Russell Brain, 1952The only equals are those who are equally rich.
—Burundian proverbWe must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!
—George H. W. Bush, 1990Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Death keeps no calendar.
—George Herbert, 1640The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
—Bernard De Voto, 1951