"In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions."
-William Osler
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"There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.“
-William Osler
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"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely."
-William Osler
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"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability."
-William Osler
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"The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it."
-William Osler
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"No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher."
-William Osler
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"The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
-C. S. Lewis
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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
-Woody Allen
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"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
-Ernst Fischer
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
-Groucho Marx
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"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."
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"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
-Andy Warhol
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