A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.
GALEN
Laziness breeds humors of the blood.
More Galen Quotes
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Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!
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Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.
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The best physician is also a philosopher.
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I’m exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator
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He who has two cakes of bread, let him dispose of one of them for some flowers of the narcissus; for bread is the food of the body, and the narcissus is the food of the soul.
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The chief merit of language is clearness.
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Who Are You? What do you want? Where Are You Going? Who do you serve and who do you trust?
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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience
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After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.
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(Wine is) the nurse of old age.
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Confidence and hope do more good than physic.
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Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.
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The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images
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If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?
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