As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years; the longest in the world. ~Robert Jarvik
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In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion. ~Archibald Hill
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish Proverb
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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~Proverb
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb
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Laughter is the best medicine. ~Modern Proverb
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin' from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock. ~Marty Stuart
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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I only discovered the "Harry Potter" series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of "Harry Potter" didn't help much, and I fared poorly. ~Sonam Kapoor
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein. ~Jerry Brown
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In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington; today it is 1 in 4. ~John Ensign
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Health care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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