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“My poor are my best patients. God pays for them.”

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Herman Boerhaave was a Dutch botanist and physician, born on December 31, 1668, and died on September 23, 1738. He made significant contributions to both botany and medicine, often referred to as 'the Avicenna of the Netherlands'. more

“When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking of little arts and bits of learning. My mother carefully fostered a liking for botany, giving me a small microscope and many books, which I yet have. Strange as it may seem, I now believe that botany and the natural system, by exercising discrimination of kinds, is the best of logical exercises. What I may do in logic is perhaps derived from that early attention to botany.”

“In matters of philosophy and science authority has ever been the great opponent of truth. A despotic calm is usually the triumph of error. In the republic of the sciences sedition and even anarchy are beneficial in the long run to the greatest happiness of the greatest number.”

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Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.”

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Author:Chuck Norris

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