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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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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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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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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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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It's hard to be a good doctor if you don't think about the social circumstances of who you're treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it's difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right winger. ~Robert Winston
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To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. ~Gilbert Newton Lewis
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We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true. ~Akhil Sharma
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Beggars can't be choosers. ~English Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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Praise the young and they will blossom. ~Irish Proverb
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For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Because all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen. ~Holly Goldberg Sloan
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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