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Bowing to the reality of harried lives, Rudwick recognizes that not everyone will read every word of the meaty second section; he even explicitly gives us permission to skip if we get “bogged down in the narrative.” Readers absolutely must not do such a thing; it should be illegal. The publisher should lock up the last 60 pages, and deny access to anyone who doesn't pass a multiple-choice exam inserted into the book between parts two and three.
stephen jay gould— "The Power of Narrative", p. 88
We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside.
paula modersohn-becker— As quoted in: Norbert Wolf, ?Uta Grosenick (2004) Expressionism, p. 74
Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.
peter singer— Chapter 6, A New Understanding Of Ethics, p. 167
It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine when they lack a clear understanding of disease mechanisms, that the deficiencies of the health-care system are most conspicuous. If I were a policy-maker, interested in saving money for health care over the long haul, I would regard it as an act of high prudence to give high priority to a lot more basic research in biologic science.
lewis thomas— "The Technology of Medicine"
