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“One of the professions that historically delivered bloodletting services was, of all people, the barber. Even today, you can find barber shops that still use the red-and-white striped pole outside. It’s a carryover from another era, designed to represent blood and bandages.”

Barbers Bloodletting

Book:The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures

Source: The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures

“Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.”

Political Politics Power Medicine Ingredients Bloodletting

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“We can bear up under everything, if we have only the certainty that the monster Hitler with his insatiable bloodletting and plundering will have committed soon his last shameful deed.”

Ifs Lasts Bears Committed Deeds Monsters Certainty Shameful Insatiable Bloodletting

Author:Friedrich Kellner

“War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither can the evil of men's thoughts be driven out by blows. If I go to my neighbor's house, and break her furniture, and smash her pictures, and bind her children captive, it does not prove that I am fitter to live than she - yet according to ethics of nations it does. I have conquered her and she must pay me for my trouble; and her house and all that is left in it belongs to my heirs and successors, forever. That is war!”

Ifs Men Children Doe War Spirit Evil House Left Nations Pay Break Forever Trouble Prove Ethics Blow Driven Neighbor Furniture Heirs Captives Successors Bloodletting

Book:In Times Like These

Source: In Times Like These

“When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.”

Way Looks Age Middle Compare Historian Inflation Middle Ages Bloodletting

Author:Lee Iacocca

“My family left Afghanistan in 1976, well before the Communist coup and the Soviet invasion. We certainly thought we would be going back. But when we saw those Soviet tanks rolling into Afghanistan, the prospect for return looked very dim. Few of us, I have to say, envisioned that nearly a quarter century of bloodletting would follow.”

Wells Would Be Left Saws Century Return My Family Communist Afghanistan Quarters Soviet Rolling Invasion Tanks Coups Bloodletting

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.”

Writing Art Easy Blood Fronts Sitting Crafts Veins Typewriters Droplets Bloodletting

Author:Red Smith

“As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.”

Years Cities Foundation Complicated Planning Nonsense Subtle Dogma Rebuilding Pseudoscience City Planning Urban Renewal Bloodletting

Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“Converting the war into an antislavery crusade was a brilliant move on Lincoln's part, and it resulted in a surge of voluntary recruits into the Union army. But this did not last. Northerners may have disapproved of slavery in the South but, once the bloodletting began in earnest, their willingness to die for that conviction began to wane. [...] Lincoln faced the embarrassing reality that he soon would have no army to carry on the crusade.”

May War Reality Lasts Moving Dies Army Slavery Unions South Conviction Brilliant Civil War Willingness Embarrassing Earnest Crusades Converting Recruit Northerners Bloodletting

Author:G. Edward Griffin

“Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed.”

Premises Approved Affront Bloodletting

Author:Al Swearengen

“We can only reach our goal amid bloodletting”

Goal Bloodletting

Author:Naz?m Hikmet