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One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.

Clayton M. Christensen
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We have found that no modern prescriptions heal the human heart so fully or so well as the prescription of the Ancient Ones. "To the hills," they would say. To which we would add, "To the trees, the valleys, and the streams, as well." For there is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain.

Anasazi Foundation, The Seven Paths: Changing One's Way of Walking in the World
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Incidentally, it’s easy to write prescriptions, but difficult to come to an understanding with people.

Franz Kafka, A Country Doctor
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A library bears similar qualities to a hospital. Librarians are like doctors, books the prescriptions.

Trudy Wallis, Longbourn Library: A Novel of Pride, Prejudice, and Books
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Dangerous Helpfulness. There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than afterwards to offer them their prescriptions for making life easier -- their Christianity, for example.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Man Alone with Himself
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The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.

David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
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All these men recognized what they themselves valued, and lived according to these values regardless of their relationship to the values of their community. Each lived according to what brought them happiness and peace rather than commonplace prescriptions of the multitudes.

Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
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Man, free thinker!Do you imagine you alone think in this world where life is blazing forth in all things?You are free to avail yourself of the forces you command, but the universe has gone missing from your prescriptions.

Gérard de Nerval
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The discrepancy between the modern observance and the prescriptions of the Rule had struck me ever since the novitiate, and no satisfactory explanation had ever been given to me. People said that man had changed: the weakness of people's health no longer allows us to fast. Was it true?

Adalbert de Vogüé, Aimer Le Jeune: L'Experience Monastique
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There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were.

David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
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