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Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. -Emily PostPrepare yourselves for the great world, as the athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do, as young people are too apt to think.

-Lord ChesterfieldIn marriage the little things count, the clothes, dishes, toilet paper and making the bed. -Earl BlanchardWhat greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in allsorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting. -George ElliottWhat counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. -Leo TolstoyOne of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife. -Grouch MarxMarriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins. -Langdon MitchellLet there be spaces in your togetherness. -Kahlil GibranEvery marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant, of a teacher anda learner. -John Updike

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell; it is simply purgatory. -Abraham LincolnA man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves. -Anton ChekhovChains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threadswhich sew people together through the years. That's what makes a marriage last--

more than passion or even sex. -Simon SignoretA good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky. -Rainer Maria RilkeMarriage does not change people, it merely unmasks them. -UnknownDon't speak negative things into your mate. -Steve RobinsonMarriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out thetrash. -Joyce Brothers

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions, you wife asks for nothing. -Joey AdamsSpoil your spouse, not your children. -Unknown

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents. -Harold NicolsonGod always geometrizes. -PlatoWe study mathematics in order to reckon quantities and build bridges. We study psychology in order to find our way in the jungle of society. -Francis BaconThere is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobilityis in being superior to your previous self. -Hindustani proverb

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through. -Harry A . OverstreetThere is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobilityis in being superior to your previous self. -Hindustani proverb

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient. -Abraham Flexner

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped. -Christian BarnardUltrasonography, a variety of isotopic scans, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and positron emission tomography have benefited patients by opening new diagnosticvistas and by largely supplanting older, more invasive approaches. -Harrison'sPrinciples of Internal Medicine, 16th EditionThe practice of medicine is dependent on the sum total of medical knowledge, which in turn is based on an unending chain of scientific discovery, clinical obser

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vation, analysis, and interpretation. -Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 16th EditionI prosper when I meditate. -Michael HilliardYou do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Donot even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. Theworld will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it willroll in ecstasy at your feet. -Franz Kafka

As the meditation is, such is the man. -Thomas WatsonMeditation is a mental discipline of focusing the mind upon one thing or activity, the purpose of which is to develop a transcendent sense of peace and mindfulclarity of thought. -Dawn GrovesThe mind must be made to stop running like a wristwatch. It must be persuaded torelax and sit still. Its hidden fountain of strength must be persuaded to flow.-Colin Wilson

The more associations we make to the things we learn, the easier it is to recallthem. -Stephen Simpson

The mind recalls the images of the mind--images placed there by words and emotions, images created by language and love and hope and fear and impressions both specific and vague. -Roy H. WilliamsOnly 25% of what is heard registers at the moment. -William J. TobinYour mind can't remember what you never put in it. Good memory, with which nature has endowed us, causes things long past to seem present. -Da VinciThe strongest memory is weaker than the palest ink. -Chinese ProverbMemory is a muscle, it has to be trained. -Daniel Barinborn

The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing, whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own. Life is all memory, except forthe one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going. -T

ennessee WilliamsTo want to forget something is to think of it. -French ProverbFor the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it so little. -Rachel CarsonThe true art of memory is the art of attention. -Samuel JohnsonAs researchers point out, almost anything you do to improve your memory works because a major reason for memory failure is not paying attention in the first place. -Unknown