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“Darwin's theory is as dead as he is. Everyone is surviving, fit or not. Years ago, any kid dumb enough to chase a shiny object down a well was dead, and out of the gene pool. Now they got the technology and medicine to save the fool so he can breed more open mouth breathers.”

Years Wells Enough Kids Technology Objects Theory Fool Fit Mouths Years Ago Medicine Dumb Pool Genes Surviving

Author:Lenny Bruce

“I wanted to work with Barry [ Jenkins]. I am a big fan of his from Medicine for Melancholy years ago. Tarrell [Alvin McCraney] is my favorite playwright. I will do anything he asks. The characters were so clearly drawn and three dimensional. It was an easy thing to say yes to.”

Years Character Bigs Wanted Three Asks Easy Fans Years Ago Medicine My Favorite Melancholy Playwright Easy Things

Author:Andre Holland

“A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.”

Years Heart Said Principles Years Ago Medicine Medical Psychological Merry

Author:Joel Osteen

“Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.”

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Author:Lewis Thomas

“For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.”

Years Enough Felt Four Air Exercise Years Ago Medicine Four Years Stamina Asthma

Author:Venus Williams

“A few hundred years ago there were no differences between magic and medicine.”

Years Differences Magic Hundred Years Ago Medicine

Author:Joanne Harris

“Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.”

Years Made Use Past Science Known Progress Years Ago Medicine Operations Fifty Execution

Author:Mark Twain

“Only about seventy years ago was chemistry, like a grain of seed from a ripe fruit, separated from the other physical sciences. With Black, Cavendish and Priestley, its new era began. Medicine, pharmacy, and the useful arts, had prepared the soil upon which this seed was to germinate and to flourish.”

Source: Familiar Letters on Chemistry, in its relation to Physiology, Dietetics, Agriculture, Commerce and Political Economy: Edited by John Blyth