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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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~George Bernard Shaw
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder. ~Julie Newmar
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church. ~Johnny Hunt
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck; and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee; or you can go out and become an entrepreneur. ~Al Michaels
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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If you didn't watch "The Shield," you should stop everything you are doing and go back and watch "The Shield." ~Timothy Simons
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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Appetite comes with eating. ~French Proverb
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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