There is only one ultimate and effectual preventive for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.
—Harvey Williams Cushing
Topics: Death
The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to his teachers.
—Harvey Williams Cushing
Topics: Stress
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