Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.

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"A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own."

- W. H. Auden

Compassion

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."

- W. H. Auden

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"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living."

- W. H. Auden

Connection to Earth

"We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know."

- W. H. Auden

Philosophy

"Music is the best means we have of digesting time."

- W. H. Auden

Philosophy

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"You are the hope of Israel, ‘children of the promised day’!"

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"If you can dream it, you can do it."

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"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."

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"You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there are no limits."

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"Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard."

- Serena Williams

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