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Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.

Rudolf Virchow

Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.
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Medical Privilege Standard Statistics Work
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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Beginning Belief End Leave Science
Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
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Best Insurance Writing
Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.
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Community Education Existence Live Medical Way
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
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Consciousness Know Limitation Science
It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation, that it forgets the most shameful happenings in the daily shame of events, and that it can hardly understand when individuals aim to destroy this infamy.
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Curse Destroy Event Humanity Learning Shame Tolerance
Science in itself’ is nothing, for it exists only in the human beings who are its bearers. ‘Science for its own sake’ usually means nothing more than science for the sake of the people who happen to be pursuing it.
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Existence People Pursue Science
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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New Oneself Prison Replacement
The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Attack Consciousness Faith Limitation Object Science
It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Curse Humanity Learning Situation Tolerance
Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Avoid Children Marriage
Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.
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Chemical Expression Follow Law Life Ordinary Physical
If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.
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Doctor Medicine People Popular Training Wisdom
Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
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Animal Division Human Medicine
The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought about by the action of external forces.
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Body Citizenship Force State
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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Law Superstition

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