Mencius Quotes
The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
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You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or seven muscles, but we neglect so many other muscles. So when I do Pilates, it helps get all the rest of the muscles in shape and gets them working together.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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Grief causes suffering and disease.
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Being an only child is a disease in itself.
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Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.
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Oliver . . . well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?
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I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.
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Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.
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After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.
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The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.
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Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.
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Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I’d much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.
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The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.
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It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
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There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
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Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.
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The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea.
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Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.
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It is the disease of not listening...... that I am troubled with.
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Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.
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If you really want to help the poor, help the rich. They're the ones who will invest, build more factories, create more jobs.
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One of the differences between now and then is that the idea of body image is a much bigger issue now. Back then, just being kind of heavy and barrel-chested passed for heroic. Now, you wouldn't dare to play a hero without a lot of dieting and various specialised abdomen machines. But that was one of the things which was interesting about it and I did want to portray because there's good and bad.
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I have seen workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called for while they work. Such are the workers who all day stand or sit, stoop or are bent double, who run or ride or exercise their bodies in all sorts of excess ways. ... the harvest of diseases reaped by certain workers ... from irregular motions in unnatural postures of the body.
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The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
