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The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
—Sigmund Freud, 1912At the start there’s always energy.
—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1480Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.
—Laozi, c. 500 BCWho lives in fear will never be a free man.
—Horace, 19 BCIf you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005It is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
—James Hutton, 1795Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798The 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, 1952He who has nothing has no friends.
—Greek proverbIn all the ancient states and empires, those who had the shipping, had the wealth.
—William Petty, 1690