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Andrew Weil, Integrative Medicine

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Andrew Weil

Integrative Medicine

I became very fascinated with healing and what it is and where it comes from. And my idea, which I have since developed and feel absolutely convinced of is that healing is a natural phenomenon, it's something that's rooted in nature, that's inherent in the body. We are born with a healing system, with the capacity for self-repair, regeneration. And that the business of medicine is to facilitate that process.
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Andrew Weil, Integrative Medicine

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Andrew Weil

Integrative Medicine

Based on the way that my career has gone, I would not rule out the possibility that five years from now I'll be doing something completely different. For the moment it is very exciting to be involved in this wave of possibility of changing medicine and bringing it back into balance with nature, of expanding scientific horizons and paradigms to take account of observations and phenomena that have been seen as being beyond the pale.
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Sanford Weill, Financier and Philanthropist

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Sanford Weill

Financier and Philanthropist

Sanford Weill: When I was a young kid I used to deliver newspapers and I liked the idea of competing and trying to get more new subscriptions than somebody else. And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in. I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.
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Sanford Weill, Financier and Philanthropist

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Sanford Weill

Financier and Philanthropist

Sanford Weill: What turned me on then, and turns me on even today -- and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it -- is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities. So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change. And if you don't like stability, and you do enjoy change, and you look at change as something that creates an opportunity, then I think it's a very, very exciting business.
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Sanford Weill, Financier and Philanthropist

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Sanford Weill

Financier and Philanthropist

My wife used to call me up and say, "Let's go to a movie." And I said, "What do you mean go to a movie? I'm working." She said, "What do you mean? You don't have a job. What are you working?" I was always afraid the phone might ring, and there might be something that came up, and if I wasn't in the office, I wouldn't be there to hear it.
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Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize for Peace

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Elie Wiesel

Nobel Prize for Peace

I read a lot. I teach my students, not creative writing, but creative reading and it is still from my childhood. You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind. And then you find clues that were left for you, really foredestined to be received by you from centuries ago. Generation after generation there were people who left clues, and you are there to collect them and, at one point, you understand something that you hadn't understood before. That is a reward, and as a teacher I do the same thing. When I realize there is a student there, in the corner, who understands, there is a flicker in the eye. That is the greatest reward that a teacher can receive.
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Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize for Peace

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Elie Wiesel

Nobel Prize for Peace

Elie Wiesel: Sensitivity. Be sensitive in every way possible about everything in life. Be sensitive. Insensitivity brings indifference and nothing is worse than indifference. Indifference makes that person dead before the person dies. Indifference means there is a kind of apathy that sets in and you no longer appreciate beauty, friendship, goodness, or anything.
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