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“Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.”

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Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion. Whenever it fails, it never recovers, but either breaks like iron, or crumbles sulkily away, like a fractured arch. Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their sufferings and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.”

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Author:Sam Harris

“Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails.”

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Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“What many fail to realize is that being attached to what we think we want and don't have while resisting what is happening in the moment is the cause, not the cure, of much personal suffering and interpersonal conflict.”

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Author:Lee L Jampolsky