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  • After deciding to get the offending "quack's" medical license revoked, I felt better.

    Dr. Richard Palmquist: Exploring Integrative Veterinary Practice Dr. Richard Palmquist 2010

  • Contrary to this quack's beliefs, I would say freedom of choice, voluntary co-operation and moral integrity were the very essence of liberalism.

    Liberals clinically mad says American psychiatrist 2008

  • But then again how could you not laugh at a quack's shameless self-promotion?

    Book Review: Doctor of Love Heather Carroll 2008

  • Is it a safe way to stay young or what do think a quack's remedy for wrinkles?

    CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2008 2008

  • This is FOX's notion of "fair and balanced," but in reality it's quite dangerous because FOX marginalizes the expert's claim while legitimizing the quack's opinion.

    Robert Greenwald: Meet the Bloggers: Henry Rollins and Paul Waldman Spurn the Media's Love for McCain 2008

  • "So you feel she ought to be locked up in that quack's loony bin?"

    Tek Kill Shatner, William 1996

  • In two seconds I had foreseen what was to follow - Solomon's recollection that he had only yesterday proposed just such a holiday, the quack's booming agreement that a sea voyage in comfort was the ideal thing, Morrison's reluctance being eventually over-borne by Elspeth's entreaties and the pill-slinger's stern admonition - you could have set it all to music and sung the damned thing.

    Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

  • Nyuk Tsin had to keep her diseased husband-for the quack's medication did no good whatever-away from public view, for that year there had been a general roundup of lepers, and some one hundred and sixty had been shipped off to the leper island to perpetual banishment and slow death; suspicious watchers had perfected tricks whereby to trap unsuspected lepers.

    Hawaii Michener, James 1959

  • He became the Burning Man who had inspired himself with terror and perplexity on the beach in Australia, in a quack's office in Shanghai, on the Spanish Stairs in Rome, on the Moon, in the Skoptsy Colony on Mars.

    The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 1956

  • He became the Burning Man who had inspired himself with terror and perplexity on the beach in Australia, in a quack's office in Shanghai, on the Spanish Stairs in Rome, on the Moon, in the Skoptsy Colony on Mars.

    The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 1956

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