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"This case bristles with simplicity. The facts are admitted; the law is plain; and yet it has taken seven days to try – one day longer than God Almighty required to make the world.” Sir James Bacon (Former Vice-Chancellor of the Court of Chancery)

"When you are alive and able - be good" Marcus Aurelius

"You have changed surgery . . . from being a hazardous lottery into a safe and soundly based science.” Alexander Ogston (British Surgeon) writing to Joseph Lister (British Surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery) in 1883

“My delight may be conceived when there were revealed to me beautiful tangles, tufts and chains of round organisms in great numbers.” Sir Alexander Ogston (British Surgeon) on the discovery of Staphylococcus aureus (a gram positive round-shaped bacterium)

"It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous." Charles Dudley Warner

"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death." Sun Tzu

"Blame no one. Where does blaming people get you?" Marcus Aurelius

"Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph." Franz Kafka

"It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it." Seneca

"A judge is not supposed to know anything about the facts of life until they have been presented in evidence, and explained to him at least three times." Lord Chief Justice Parker