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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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees. ~John Mackey
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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No doctor is better than three. ~German Proverb
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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