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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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to. ~Lou Brock
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things. ~Bethenny Frankel
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Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength; not his weaknesses; to place him immediately on the defensive. ~Mark McKinnon
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens; men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls. ~Arthur Capper
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If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places. ~Fred Kent
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Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound. ~Carolina Herrera
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. ~Ted Williams
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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People have to be free to investigate computer security. People have to be free to look for the vulnerabilities and create proof of concept code to show that they are true vulnerabilities in order for us to secure our systems. ~Edward Snowden
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest, I will say the greatest. ~William Friedkin
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To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. ~William Arthur Ward
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Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go. ~William J. Clinton
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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