The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb
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A human heart that matched what we think of as heart-shaped; a perfectly formed bright red thing with two halves of equal size; would be one that was horribly diseased. The origin of this stylized representation is somewhat obscure, but it probably appeared at the same time as St. Valentine's Day, about whose history there is much dispute. ~George Fetherling
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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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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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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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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Health care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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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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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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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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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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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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They don't make coats for this kind of cold. ~Ryan Adams
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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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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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
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When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony. ~Helen Nielsen
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