A Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death...before they breed more hemophiliacs.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Robert A. Heinlein
American - Writer
July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988

Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.

Colin Powell

Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions.

Serge Lang

In the 1980s, when people were just beginning to talk about AIDS, there were just a few categories of those who were at high risk: homosexuals, hemophiliacs, heroin addicts, and Haitians. We were the only ones identified by nationality.

Edwidge Danticat

We will cry and bleed and lust and love, and we will cure death. We will be the cure. Because we want it.

Isaac Marion

From inability to let well alone; from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old; from putting knowledge before wisdom, science before art and cleverness before common sense; from treating patients as cases; and from making the cure of the disease more grievous than the endurance of the same, Good Lord, deliver us.

Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

Science offers the chance to cure debilitating and once-intractable disorders like hemophilia and sickle cell disease. But we need to make sure the ability to access these therapies, or the risk that someone can be locked out of them, doesn't widen gaps between the rich and poor.

Scott Gottlieb

Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed to death.

Brock Yates

More people worry themselves to death than bleed to death.

Robert A. Heinlein

Palestinian Arabs [are] people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery.

Ruth Wisse

The only cure for a real hangover is death.

Robert Benchley

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

Robert Benchley

We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Thomas Browne

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Thomas Browne

There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life.

Loni Anderson

We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.