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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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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Health care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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We need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts. ~Stephen King
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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Plaid is always cute and always will be. But only on the bottom. At the top, it makes you look like a farmer. ~Jen Lancaster
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It is method on "This is England;" it is. But it can't be method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything. ~Vicky McClure
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work. ~Hanneli Mustaparta
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. ~Robert Scheer
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~French Proverb
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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