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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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen 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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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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Health care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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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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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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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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The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up, it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together. ~Michael Light
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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There is a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary. ~Trevor Dunn
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
#quotes #philip-pullman #life #trust

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. ~Lord Byron
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market, I have so many vintage pieces from there it is unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules. ~Kaya Scodelario
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ~Mark Twain
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If you want something done well, do it yourself. ~English Proverb
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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