Hippocrates Quotes
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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I didn't know I wanted to be a gymnast; I was just introduced to the gym. I loved the place because it looked like a hi-tech playground with mats and a lot of things I can hang from.
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It's nice to have boundaries, because as long as we have them, we can cross them a bit, and that's what perks interest. If you have full freedom, what do you do?
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The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking has a big impact on the oil consumption in the United States.
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There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!
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The beloved objects that we had carried with us from place to place were now left behind in the wagon and, with them, finally, our illusions.
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But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.
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It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
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There's nothing glamorous about being dead.
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The lack of work destroys people.
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The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.
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I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
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I've got this reputation for shooting one take which is a wonderful reputation to have but it's hard to live up to.
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Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.
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These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann's to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
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Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you.
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In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. Within months, his army collapsed and fled. It was routed not by the Italian army but by a microbe. A mysterious new disease spread through sex killed many of Charles’s soldiers and left survivors weak and disfigured. French soldiers spread the disease across much of Europe, and then it moved into Africa and Asia. Many called it the French disease. The French called it the Italian disease. Arabs called it the Christian disease. Today, it is called syphilis.
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Because of the many problems hogs create, we want to see the sportsmen in Alabama take as many hogs as they possibly can, whenever they can. I know we have some hunters who really enjoy hunting hogs and who have some well-trained dogs that can find, chase, bay, catch and hold hogs. But we really want to see the number of hogs statewide reduced drastically because they do so much destruction to the habitat.
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You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this - if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to new.
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A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.
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We heard from the abortionists and we heard from the people who looked like Jacks, acted like Jills and had the odors of Johns.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
