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Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.

Rudolf Virchow

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
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Curse Humanity Learning Situation Tolerance
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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Law Superstition
The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.
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Natural Poor Problem Social Solution
Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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Body Citizenship State
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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Beginning Belief End Leave Science
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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New Oneself Prison Replacement
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
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
Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
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Belief Place Reach Science Stop
There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
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Faith Oneself Respect Science
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
Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
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Avoid Children Marriage
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
Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
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Belief Faith 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
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

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