We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
William Osler
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- The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
- Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.
- To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
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