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...mechanics of medicine and surgery can be acquired quickly by any reasonably intelligent person, but the morals of medicine and surgery can be acquired only slowly, and require a painfully long period of training and preparation. If it can be said of any man that he is "an operating fool," the adjective "operating" is redundant. A great surgeon is not a man who has mastered the mechanics of a simple appendectomy or tonsillectomy or any other "ectomy," he is a man who knows not only how to operate but upon whom an operation should be done and, more important, upon...
When A. Lincoln made that statement about how long the public could be fooled, he was assuming that the politicians depended on the democratic vote to put them in office. But in Alabama, Arkansas, Geargia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, the politicians only have to fool five to ten per cent of people every election year. It's not a matter of fooling at all. It's strictly a matter of playing along with the political machine: because ninety per cent of the electorates in these eight southern states not only will not, but cannot vote. They cannot...
...every hajjel within hearing distance. Soon a covey comes up, the leader ready for battle. Then the hunter blazes away at the covey with both barrels, picks up the dead birds and goes home. "They never wait to shoot again because the hajjel is smart-you can't fool him twice...
Surgeon Phillips had been no less popular at the California CCC camp where he practiced before moving to Chico. The boys called him "the operating fool...
...said; it held the family jewels, her gowns and theatrical makeup. (How the relatives got out was unexplained.) At the time she was reported dead, said Butterfly, she was actually head of a Hong Kong "Women's Club" set up by the Japs. "But that was only to fool the Japs," said she. "My loyalty to our country cannot be questioned, and I am going to show it hereafter by actions instead of words...