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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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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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proverbiosPure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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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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Any fiction is bound to be transposed autobiography. ~Elizabeth Bowen
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly. ~Garth Ennis
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I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste. ~Rick Danko
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian Proverb
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
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