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“when shit starts to go sideways first thing in the morning, go back to bed and start over.”
― Shelby Van Pelt

“The great merit of being a doctor,” said Sir Bartholomew, “is that you are not obliged to follow your own advice.”
― Agatha Christie, Three Act Tragedy

“Events come to people, not people to events. Why do some people have exciting lives and other people dull ones? Because of their surroundings? Not at all. One man may travel to the ends of the earth and nothing will happen to him. There will be a massacre a week before he arrives, and an earthquake the day after he leaves, and the boat that he nearly took will be shipwrecked. And another man may live at Balham and travel to the City every day, and things will happen to him. He will be mixed up with blackmailing gangs and beautiful girls and motor bandits. There are people with a tendency to shipwrecks--even if they go on a boat on an ornamental lake, something will happen to it.”
― Agatha Christie, Three Act Tragedy

“Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it. Impoliteness is the Mildew of mankind, Eddie.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey