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My Stream of Randomness

A list of anything anything interesting or humorous that I run across online.

 

No one freely shares power in Washington D.C., Mr. Smith.

J. Edgar (2011)

The horror of great darkness, and the sense of desertion by God and man, bordering close on despair, which swept through my mind and overwhelmed my heart, I can never forget, however gladly I would do so. During the operation, in spite of the pain it occasioned, my senses were preternaturally acute, as I have been told they generally are in patients in such circumstances. I still recall with unwelcome vividness the spreading out of the instruments: the twisting of the tourniquet: the first incision…

Professor George Wilson, describing an amputation he underwent in 1843 without the use of anesthesia. 

Two Hundred Years of Surgery, by Atul Gawande:

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1202392

And humility is an important quality. Especially if you’re wrong a lot…. Of course, when you’re right, self-doubt doesn’t help anybody, does it?

Dr. Gregory House, M.D.

If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right.

Michael Norton (he goes on to explain that the “right” way to spend money, the way that truly makes you happy, is by spending it on others)

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