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THE GUESS WHO QUOTE:This started out with a quote from Ghandi, which I thought was surprising and few would have guessed the source, without being familiar with his writings. It gave me the idea for the "Guess Who?" monthly quote (though many, I know, are pretty unguessable!) "I was at one time a great lover of the medical profession. . . . I no longer hold that opinion. . . . Doctors have almost unhinged us. . . . I regard the present system as black magic. . . . Hospitals are institutions for propagating sin. Men take less care of their bodies and immorality increases. . . . ignoring the soul, the profession puts men at its mercy and contributes to the diminution of human dignity and self control.. . . I have endeavoured to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession, and that it is injurious to mankind. . . . I believe that a multiplicity of hospitals is not test of civilization. It is rather a symptom of decay." Mahatma Gandhi Thought is energy and energy is power, and it is because all the religions, sciences and philosophies with which the world has heretofore been familiar have been based upon the manifestations of energy instead of the energy itself, that the world has been limited to effects, while causes have been ignored or misunderstood. Charles W. Haanel, author of the famous "Master Key" "... until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now." It's from W H Murray, Scottish mountaineering writer, but he was latterly much more famous as a philosophical writer. "Medicine in our country has been on a crusade over the last 100 years to wipe out every other form of medicine. One of the things they did that was unique was they lobbied to make words legal only for them to use. Today in the US, only a medical doctor can diagnose a disease, prescribe something, and cure you. Nobody else can say "diagnose", "prescribe" and "cure". That means that nobody can cure you but a medical doctor….I can’t say "Chaparral is the cure for a tumour". I can’t say "Garlic is the cure for cholestrol or high blood pressure". They have made the laws." It's from a naturopathic doctor, Richard Shulze ND, MH. He is no stranger to controversy. More by him in the vaccination section. "All men dream, but not all equally. Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake to find it was all vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous, for they may act their dreams with open eyes and make things happen." It's from T E Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"), The Seven Pillars of Wisdom; great soldier but a colossal bore as a writer! However I like this quote. "I would rather be ashes than dust, It's Jack London, from his "Tales of Adventure." "The stress that kills or cripples most of the population comes from people being too hard on themselves when they don't live up to their own imaginings about how other people think they should behave. We don't know who we are, and we try to guess who we ought to be in order to do the right thing and be happy. We get lost in the process and beat the hell out of ourselves before we even know we're hurt." It's from Radical Honesty by Brad Blanton -"Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, roughly a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet Earth. --Now this is an interesting number, for by a curious coincidence there are approximately a hundred billion stars in our local universe, the Milky Way. So for every man who has ever lived, in this universe, there shines a star." (from Arthur C. Clarke's foreword in 2001, A Space Odyssey, 1968) I met Arthur C. Clarke when I lived in Sri Lanka. He's now an elderly man in a wheelchair. One of the great minds of the 20th century (IMHO). More guess who? quotes to follow!
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