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“Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.”

Self Doubt Patient Physicians Self-doubt Dispassionate

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The fate of humanity condemned ultimately to perish from cold is not worth troubling about. If you take it to heart it becomes an unendurable tragedy. If you believe in improvement you must weep, for the attained perfection must end in cold, darkness and silence. In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, and knowledge, and even for beauty is only a vain sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of one's clothes in a community of blind men.”

Source: The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad

“At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves”

Self Individual Levels Growing Capacity Connected Self Reliance Reliance Assessment Purification Dispassionate Self Assessment

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I do not think science has to make any apologies. It looks at the world and tells it like it is. And we all live longer, better lives because of this dispassionate view. Sure, it commands awe and provides inspiration. Still, I would rather be operated on by a surgeon who sees me as an assemblage of atoms than one who lovingly tries to manipulate what he or she imagines are my vital energy fields.”

“God belongs to all free beings. He is the life of all, the salvation of all ~faithful and unfaithful, just and unjust, pious and impious, passionate and dispassionate, monks and laymen, wise and simple, healthy and sick, young and old just as the effusion of light, the sight of the sun, and the changes of the seasons are for all alike; 'for there is no respect of persons with God.'”

“When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.”

World Results Generations Succeed Fairs Wide Realms Another World Surveys Thorough Conqueror Dispassionate Gloucester William The Conqueror

Author:James Buchan

“The notion that the UN is some sort of dispassionate body that, “does right” and just pursues everybody’s best interests is a fantasy. Each individual nation will be pursuing their best interests. That’s the normal behavior of nation-states. It shouldn’t surprise us, but neither should we go to them for permission to do what’s in our national interests.”

Should Doe States Body Politics Individual Nations Interest Fantasy Behavior Normal Surprise Notion Pursue Permission National Interests Dispassionate

Author:Mona Charen

“There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion.”

Ifs Men Two Character Emotion Practice Students Profound Sincerity Vague Sentimental Observers Earnest Mystic Realist Dispassionate

Book:Views and Reviews: Essays in Appreciation: Literature

Source: Views and Reviews: Essays in Appreciation: Literature

“This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.”

Way Want Should Mean Doe Computer Bullets Dispassionate

Author:Larry Wall