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"Some ask'd how pearls did grow, and where, Then spoke I to my girle, To part her lips, and showed them there The quarelets of pearl."

"One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living."

"My curse upon thy venom'd stang, That shoots my tortured gums alang; And through my lugs gies monie a twang, Wi' gnawing vengeance, Tearing my nerves wi' bitter pang, Like racking engines!"

"... The first dentist I had for about 30 years, until he finally retired. ... The next three dentist changes all happened within a matter of maybe a year. I heard none of these young dentists owned the practice or could even begin to think of owning it. But they owed someone—and lots, on their s. I would guess in the ballpark of $400k of more. Apparently another out-of-state retired dentist had worked himself into the "investor class" of society, letting my childhood dentist cash out his practice and retire himself. I wondered if the revolving door of young dentists I was experiencing had anything to do with how they were starting out so deep in the hole after —moving to where they could get the best pay, cheapest housing, and shortest commute."

"You mean people pay you to do this to them? I thought you had captured these people and brought them here against their will! How do I become a dentist?"

"DENTIST, n. A prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coins out of your pocket."

"If, as psychologists, we follow the analogy of the other biological sciences, we must expect to find normalcy synonymous with maximal efficiency of function. Survival of the fittest means survival of those members of a species whose organisms most successfully resist the encroachments of environmental antagonists, and continue to function with the greatest internal harmony. In the field of emotions, then, why would we alter this expectation? Why should we seek the spectacularly disharmonious emotions, the feelings that reveal a crushing of ourselves by environment, and consider these affective responses as our normal emotions? If a jungle beast is torn and wounded during the course of an ultimately victorious battle, it would be a spurious logic indeed that attributed its victory to its wounds. If a human being be emotionally torn and mentally disorganized by fear or rage during a business battle from which, ultimately, he emerges victorious, it seems equally nonsensical to ascribe his conquering strength to those emotions symptomatic of his temporary weakness and defeat. Victory comes in proportion as fear is banished. Perhaps the battle may be won with some fear still handicapping the victor, but that only means that the winner's maximal strength was not required."

"Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.""

"I have used up all my weapons, and I'm helpless and bereaved Wounds are all I'm made of Did I hear you say that this is victory?"

"What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear That which disfigures it."

"I was wounded in the house of my friends."

"Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our Cushion."

"H' had got a hurt O' th' inside of a deadlier sort."

"Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee And cherish'd thine image for years; Thou hast taught me at last to forget thee, In secret, in silence, and tears."

"Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, et idem Immemor antiqui vulneris arma capit."

"Tempore ducetur longo fortasse cicatrix; Horrent admotas vulnera cruda manus."

"La blessure est pour vous, la douleur est pour moi."

"I could not have felt more strongly about this subject. One day an aide, Buddy Masters, came to me. "General," he said, "I'm worried about your eyesight which is getting worse. You read all day here in the office and then you take a couple of hundred Purple Heart certificates home, sign them at night and read some more. I have found a way to ease this." "How?" "The other day over at the Navy I saw a new machine bought for the Secretary. It writes his signature automatically, and it only costs a few hundred dollars." "Save the money," I told him. "If those boys can get wounded, I can find time to sign my name on their Purple Hearts.""

"The private wound is deepest: O time most accurs'd 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst."

"The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure."

"He jests at scars that never felt a wound."

"He in peace is wounded, not in war."

"This is a movement about the one in four girls and the one in six boys who are sexually abused every year, and who carry those wounds into adulthood."

"What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

"Safe in a ditch he bides, With twenty trenched gashes on his head; The least a death to nature."

"Show you sweet Cæsar's wounds, poor, poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me."

"Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum."

"Are they shadows that we see? And can shadows pleasure give? Pleasures only shadows be, Cast by bodies we conceive, And are made the things we deem In those figures which they seem.But these pleasures vanish fast Which by shadows are expressed: Pleasures are not, if they last, In their passing, is their best: Glory is most bright and gay In a flash, and so away.Feed apace then, greedy eyes, On the wonder you behold; Take it sudden as it flies, Though you take it not to hold: When your eyes have done their part, Thought must length it in the heart."

"He that had neither beene kithe nor kin, Might have seene a full fayre sight."

"Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars."

"For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. (Ah! he can see enough, when years are told, Who backwards looks)."

"And every eye Gaz'd as before some brother of the sky."

"Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!"

"See and to be seen."

"The rarer sene, the lesse in mynde, The lesse in mynde, the lesser payne."

"The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see."

"And for to se, and eek for to be seye."

"And finds with keen, discriminating sight, Black's not so black—nor white so very white."

"Vision without implementation is hallucination."

"In the Middle Ages society was far more static and was essentially hierarchical in nature. As a result the causal or genetic attitude was far less important in medieval thought that it is in ours and the concept of evolution had little influence compared with the role of symbolism in the general world-view... Moreover, even the concept of time itself was of less significance to historians... For St Augustine the date of an event was of far less importance than its theological significance. His tendency to see everything in a theological rather than in a historical perspective was a powerful influence in the Middle Ages... It was not until the nineteenth century that the fundamental significance of the historical perspective came to be generally recognized. This was several hundred years after the theory and practice of perspective had been developed by painters and others. In each case a new way of looking at the world resulted."

"For any man with half an eye, What stands before him may espy; But optics sharp it needs I ween, To see what is not to be seen."

"Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible."

"Therefore, anyone who now wants to ask God for visions or revelations would seem to be doing God an injustice by not fixing their eyes entirely on Christ and wanting anything else or anything new."

"I can read and see the words that you have confined behind the wall of your lips in the expression on your face and in the gaze of your eyes."

"From now on, everything in life will appear blurry to me. What’s the point of wiping my glasses when my vision has already left me?"

"No vision can grasp him, but His grasp is over all vision: He is above all comprehension, yet is acquainted with all things."

"Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he."

"Some feminist cultural theorists in France, Britain, and the United States have argued that visualization and objectification as privileged ways of knowing are specifically masculine (man the viewer, woman the spectacle). Without falling into such essentialism, we may suppose that the language, perceptions, and uses of visual information may be different for women, as pregnant subjects, than they are for men (or women) as physicians, researchers, or reporters."

"The "prevalence of the gaze," or the privileging of the visual, as the primary means to knowledge in Western scientific and philosophical traditions has been the subject of a feminist inquiry by Evelyn Fox Keller and Christine R. Grontkowski. In their analysis, stretching from Plato to Bacon and Descartes, this emphasis on the visual has had a paradoxical function. For sight, in contrast to the other senses, has as its peculiar property the capacity for detachment, for objectifying the thing visualized by creating distance between knower and known. (In modern optics, the eye becomes a passive recorder, a camera obscura.) In this way, the elevation of the visual in a hierarchy of senses actually has the effect of debasing sensory experience, and relatedness, as modes of knowing:" Vision connects us to truth as it distances us from the corporeal.""

"I spry my closed vision over the streets of this city and the shadows lurching within it."