“We say that one gets cancer, or a cold, or kidney disease. One would never think to say that one is cancer. But we say that one is depressed, or bipolar, or schizophrenic. A disease of the body is a condition. But a disease of the mind, we think, is a state of being. We no longer believe, as we did 250 years ago, that the mentally ill are animals, but we are not yet ready to grant that they are fully human either.” ThinkingYearsMindBelieveHumansStatesBodyAnimalConditionsReadyColdDiseaseYears AgoIllCancerGrantsBipolarKidneysSchizophrenicMentally IllKidney Disease Author:Paul Gruchow
“Its the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago.” YearsConditionsYears AgoDoctorsTreatsHealBest Times Author:Joseph Murray
“Actually, if you go back to what Marx said in The Communist Manifesto over a hundred years ago, when in talking about the constant revolutions in technology, he ended that paragraph by saying, "All that is sacred is profaned, all that is solid melts into air, and men and women are forced to face with sober senses our conditions of life and our relations with our kind." We're at that sort of turning point in human history.” IfsMenYearsHumansKindSaidFacesTalkingTechnologyAirConditionsRevolutionHundredMen And WomenYears AgoRelationSacredConstantSensesCommunistSoberHuman HistoryParagraphTurning PointsManifestosCommunist Manifesto Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“The sensory ratios that are being reinforced by the new electronic technology are like the sensory ratios that were in place fifteen thousand years ago. . . . Print imposes a condition on human mind which is now lifting.” YearsMindHumansTechnologyConditionsThousandYears AgoPrintHuman MindFifteenThousand YearsLiftingSensoryRatios Author:Terence McKenna
“10 years ago the black man knew what his condition was. And today, because of the world revolution that's taking place all over this earth, the black man would be fighting for what he knows is his by right, but the movement on the part of [Martin Luther] King and the others had done nothing but slow down the militancy that is inherent in the nature of the black man.” KnowsMenWorldYearsDoneWould BeTodayEarthFightingBlackConditionsMovementRevolutionKingsYears AgoInherentSlow DownLutherMilitancy Author:Malcolm X
“What I didn't know at the time [of my scholarship] was that the ceramic class was not really a very good class. This was many years ago and should not reflect on the conditions at the Art Institute of Chicago to this day, but we didn't know anything and we started to learn about how to work with clay.” KnowsShouldYearsArtClassConditionsYears AgoVery GoodThis DayChicagoClayScholarshipInstituteCeramics Author:Warren MacKenzie
“Years ago I was diagnosed with a condition and my doctors prescribed human growth hormone and testosterone for its treatment. Under medical supervision I have continued to use both medications.” YearsHumansUseGrowthConditionsYears AgoDoctorsMedicalTreatmentMedicationHormonesTestosteroneSupervisionGrowth Hormones Author:Sylvester Stallone
“I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things; Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago; Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth.” ThinkingYearsLooksKindLongSelfWholeEarthLyingTurnsDarkSinAnimalConditionsDutyYears AgoSickResponsibleAwakeSweatDiscussingDissatisfiedIndustriousManiaHuman AnimalLeaves Of GrassDementedPlacidSelf ContainedDuty To God Author:Walt Whitman
“I tell [medical students] that they are the luckiest persons on earth to be in medical school, and to forget all this worry about H.M.O.'s and keep your eye on helping the patient. It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a couple of years ago.” YearsPersonsHelpingEyeSchoolEarthScienceForgetWorryConditionsStudentsCoupleYears AgoDoctorsTreatsLuckPatientMedicalHealBest TimesMedical School Author:Joseph Murray