Quotes from Noah Gordon

They thirsted to fight because the war existed, and because it had been officially declared admirable and patriotic to kill. That was enough.

Native-born Protestants loathed and oppressed Catholics and immigrants, and Catholics and immigrants scorned and murdered Negroes, as if each group fed off its hate, needing the nourishment provided by the bone marrow of someone weaker.

Después de todo, ¿qué es una mentira? No es sino la verdad enmascarada», escribió Byron.

When Rob J. had prepared for citizenship he'd studied the United States Constitution and marveled at its provisions. Now he saw that the genius of those who had written the Constitution was that it foresaw man's weakness of character and the continuing presence of evil in the world, and sought to make individual freedom the legal reality to which the country had to return again and again.

Do not be reluctant to value yourself highly, for others do so. Nor should you hesitate to aspire to any goal, because God has been lavish in his gifts to you.

He realized the lesson was that science can take medicine only so far. Then it is helped tremendously if there is faith or belief in something else.

IOX. Io means 'shout.' X is ten. It's a Roman cheer for victory: 'Shout ten times!

La conciencia era un dolor insoportable.

Galen tells us that the heart and all the arteries pulsate with the same rhythm, so that from one you can judge of all, and that a slow and regular pulse signifies good health. But since Achmed, I have found that the pulse also may be used to determine the state of a patient's agitation or peace of mind. I have done so many times, and the pulse has proven to be The Messenger Who Never Lies.

The simplest and most cost-effective plan was the "single-payer" system used by other leading nations, in which the government collected taxes and paid for the health care of all its citizens.

Quizás algún día volvamos a vernos. —No lo creo. Se abrazaron.

The difficulty in life is the choice. —George Moore The Bending of the Bough

En las comunidades judías siempre hay un extranjero. Y el año venidero el anfitrión será el huésped.

I have never had a money practice; it would have been impossible for me. But the actual calling on people, at all times and under all conditions, the coming to grips with the intimate conditions of their lives, when they were being born, when they were dying, watching them die, watching them get well when they were ill, has always absorbed me. —William Carlos Williams, M.D. Autobiography

Men were sometimes comforters and often brutes but they were always puzzles

They say some are born healers. Selected." The Jew smiled at him. "Of course, others are simply lucky

Los protestantes nativos aborrecían y oprimían a católicos e inmigrantes, y los católicos e inmigrantes despreciaban y asesinaban a los negros, como si cada grupo viviera de su odio y necesitara el alimento que proporcionaba el tuétano de alguien más débil.

she learned about Archimedes' claim that, given a long enough lever, he could move the planet.

Ahora se daba cuenta de que el genio de aquellos que habían redactado la Constitución consistía en prevenir la debilidad de carácter del hombre y la presencia constante del mal en el mundo y convertir la libertad individual en la realidad legal a la que el país tenía que volver una y otra vez.

La medicina es como una lenta obra de albañilería. Somos afortunados si en el plazo de una vida podemos poner un solo ladrillo. Y si podemos explicar la enfermedad, alguien que aún no ha nacido estará en condiciones de conseguir su curación.

most of the students were aware of their place in time and society, sensitive to the fact that an exploding technology hadn't obliterated the human ability to make mistakes. It was important for them to be acutely aware of situations that could cause harm or death to their patients and waste their hard-earned incomes on malpractice settlements.

que la iglesia conservaba para usarlas sucesivamente en las casas

If He (God) is invisible, how does He know what He looks like?' The Torah tells us He has made man in His own image, after His likeness, and therefore He does but glance at you, my son, and sees Himself.

No, eso es ser taxidermista. Yo seré médico y pasaré toda mi vida atendiendo al pueblo de Masqat en tiempos de enfermedad, que es lo que debe de hacer un médico. ¡Tú no eres capaz de decidir si quieres ser cirujano, taxidermista, médico o... comadrona con cojones! ¡Quieres hacerlo todo!