When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
#proverbs #zen-proverbs #buddhism #mind

If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #art

[The raindrops] played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. ~Gary D. Schmidt
#quotes #gary-d-schmidt #night

If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
#quotes #v-s-naipaul #writer #death #hostility

As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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To be a team, you must be a family. ~Don Meyer
#quotes #don-meyer #basketball #team

Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
#quotes #hermann-hesse #thinking #pleasure #sorrow #youth

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~George Bernard Shaw
#quotes #george-bernard-shaw #democracy #government

Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
#quotes #franklin-d-roosevelt #life #nation

The Senate is now considering increasing government subsidies for corn growers to produce more ethanol. If we produce enough ethanol we can postpone our next invasion of a Middle Eastern country for two to three years. ~Jay Leno
#quotes #jay-leno #government

Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ~Jean Genet
#quotes #jean-genet #evil

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ~Richard M. Nixon
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
#proverbs #jewish-proverbs #intelligence #luck

In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did; I just wanted to do it. ~B.o.B
#quotes #b-o-b

Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
#proverbs #exaggeration

It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation. ~Thurston Moore
#quotes #thurston-moore #radio

It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
#proverbs #spanish-proverbs #knowledge #speaking

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
#quotes #george-bernard-shaw #pessimism

Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
#proverbs #russian-proverbs #luck

He who cannot howl will not find his pack. ~Charles Simic
#quotes #charles-simic #motivation

I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy. ~Bono
#quotes #bono #united-states

You can't, Brooke, you can't leave. You're mine. ~Katy Evans
#quotes #katy-evans

I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
#quotes #stephen-graham

Death is just life's next big adventure. ~J. K. Rowling
#quotes #j-k-rowling #death #life