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“We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.”

Years Ends Suffering Language Loses Ability Teach Students Capacity Thirds Medicine Patient Medical

Author:Abraham Verghese

“The right to freedom of expression is justified first of all as the right of an individual purely in his capacity as an individual. It derives from the widely accepted premise of Western thought that the proper end of man is the realization of his character and potentialities as a human being.”

Men Firsts Humans Ends Character Individual Human Beings Acceptance Expression Capacity Western Accepted Civil Rights Realization Justified Premises Freedom Of Expression

Author:Thomas I. Emerson

“The humble person is open to being corrected, whereas the arrogant is clearly closed to it. Proud people are supremely confident in their own opinions and insights. No one can admonish them successfully: not a peer, not a local superior, not even the pope himself. They know - and that is the end of the matter. Filled as they are with their own views, the arrogant lack the capacity to see another view.”

People Knows Persons Ends Matter Views Opinion Proud Capacity Filled Humble Insight Locals Superiors Arrogant Peers Pope Admonish Humble Person

Book:Authenticity: A Biblical Theology of Discernment

Source: Authenticity: A Biblical Theology of Discernment

“Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on the way to its true end, terminates in a value which does not exist, and thus frustrates all its deepest capacities for happiness and peace.”

Way Doe Ends Values Creatures Capacity Sake Consumerism Overconsumption

Author:Thomas Merton

“All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.”

Ends Natural Creatures Capacity Evolve Destined

Book:Philosophical writings

Source: Philosophical writings

“The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.”

Men Mean Ends Order Causes Development Capacity Employed Antagonism

Book:Philosophical writings

Source: Philosophical writings

“Lack of outlets, excess capacity, complete deadlock, in the end regular recurrence of national bankruptcies and other disasters-perhaps world wars from sheer capitalist despair-may confidently be anticipated. History is as simple a that.”

World May War Ends Simple Despair Capacity Disaster War Of The Worlds Excess Capitalist Sheer Outlets Bankruptcy Recurrence

Book:Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy