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Kenneth Williams

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It's frightening to think with ?modern medicine and all the technique available to them they can't really help you. In the old days, you know, you were better off because nowadays, they are all specialists. Everyone's becoming better and better at less and ?less. Eventually someone's going to be superb, at nothing.
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