Pieterse Medical Center Quotes & Sayings

Denmark first responded to the denunciatory cries of the eighteenth century against slavery and the slave-trade. In 1792, by royal order, this traffic was prohibited in the Danish possessions after 1802. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Don't always wish it is easier to be done; wish you have enough power to make it happen. No matter how difficult it is, you can do it when the solution is in your palms! — Israelmore Ayivor

Anything, anything at all can be logical. For something to be logical, it just has to be a valid example of reasoning from some set of premises. — Mark C. Chu-Carroll

Nothing is real unless people agree that it is. — Mary Gergen

Kids won't watch older movies - they want to see what's hip right now. — Billy Bob Thornton

Captain, said Khaavren, both by way of affirmation and correction, thus conveying the maximum amount of information in the fewest possible words; a custom of his, and one that this historian has, in fact, adopted for himself, holding efficiency of language to be a high virtue in all written works without exception. — Steven Brust

By starting from the ground and tapping into the absolute, uncheatable truth of nature we can make ourselves better — Monty Don

If I live a day and I don't know a little more than I did the day before, I think I wasted that day. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

White Americans find it as difficult as white people elsewhere do to divest themselves of the notion that they are in possession of some intrinsic value that black people need, or want. And this assumption - which, for example, makes the solution to the Negro problem depend on the speed with which Negroes accept and adopt white standards - is revealed in all kinds of striking ways, from Bobby Kennedy's assurance that a Negro can become President in forty years to the unfortunate tone of warm congratulation with which so many liberals address their Negro equals. — James Baldwin