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Quote by Samuel M. Vauclain

“If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.”

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Samuel M. Vauclain was an individual active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for an unknown profession. His life and contributions are not well-documented, but his influence and evaluation in his field may have been significant. more

“Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the spine, and felt the aorta greatly enlarged, and beating with excessive force. By means of my finger nail, I scratched through the peritoneum on the left side of the aorta, and then gradually passed my finger between the aorta and the spine, and again penetrated the peritoneum, on the right side of the aorta. I had now my finger under the artery, and by its side I conveyed the blunt aneurismal needle, armed with a single ligature behind it.”

Mean Made Left Force Felt Sides Behinds Fingers Opening Operations Sufficient Nails Needles Spine Blunt Arteries Intestines Abdomen Excessive Force

Book:Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery

Source: Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery

“Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast and very accurate, but they are constrained to perform only one or a few elementary operations at a time. Men are flexible, capable of "programming themselves contingently" on the basis of newly received information. Computing machines are single-minded, constrained by their "pre-programming."”

Source: In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990

“One of my surgical giant friends had in his operating room a sign "If the operation is difficult, you aren't doing it right." What he meant was, you have to plan every operation You cannot ever be casual You have to realize that any operation is a potential fatality.”

Ifs Science Difficult Realizing Rooms Plans Errors Operations Giants Casual Fatality Operating Room

Author:Joseph Murray

“Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.”

Sides Leadership Acting Leader Accepting History Loneliness Coins Flipping A Coin

Book:Marcos Speaks: Quotations from the Man who Leads the Democratic Revolution in the Philippines

Source: Marcos Speaks: Quotations from the Man who Leads the Democratic Revolution in the Philippines

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