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“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before,”
― Cat's Cradle
― Cat's Cradle
“Back a mouse into a corner and he'll attack a lion.”
― Apocalipsis Z: La ira de los justos
― Apocalipsis Z: La ira de los justos
“In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept surgeon cut both himself and, somehow, a bystander while blundering about during an amputation. Both men contracted an infection and died, as did the patient. Nightingale commented that it was the only surgery she'd ever seen with 300 percent mortality.”
― The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
― The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
“السعادة المفرطة كالحزن تماماً، تضيق بها النفس إن لم نشارك بها أحداً.”
― ساق البامبو
― ساق البامبو
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