In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases. ~Ron Wyden
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish 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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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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The cat was created when the lion sneezed. ~Arabic Proverb
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Laughter is the best medicine. ~Modern Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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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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People aren't paying to see the Kevin McHale show, they're paying to see the cast of "Glee." ~Kevin McHale
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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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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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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases. ~Ron Kind
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American Proverb
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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