- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was just sitting in Target, just getting over my cold. I blew my nose and I see these people looking at me and kind of whispering and pointing. Finally, I went, 'Is everything okay? Did I do something wrong? Do I have a booger on my face and no one's telling me?' I'm just not used to it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say that the most expensive piece of medical equipment is the doctor's pen. It's not that we make all the money. It's that we order all the money.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writing I love has something memorable in it - an image, a smell. It's the connection between the moment and the whole concept, weaving the micro together with the macro so that it has a hold on people - that's writing.
- Employs
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- Nov 07, 2020
The health-care sector certainly employs more people and more machines than it did. But there have been no great strides in service. In Western Europe, most primary-care practices now use electronic health records and offer after-hours care; in the United States, most don't.
- Elemental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others. We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Health care confronts us with a difficult test. We have never corrected failure in something so deeply embedded in people's lives and in the economy without the pressure of an outright crisis.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.
- Extending
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no difference between saving lives and extending lives, because in both cases we are giving people the chance of more life.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020