Hippocrates Quotes

All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.

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• I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.

  

  Olivia Wilde
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• Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.

  

  Victoria Moran
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• Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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• You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.

  

  Patrick Ness
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• The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

  

  B. W. Powe

• Our government has to be held accountable for enforcing the law. Tamir Rice, the fact that they could exonerate that police person [who killed him], and Tamir's family was charged for the ambulance to take him [to the hospital]. It's inhumane.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
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• George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Drew Carey
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• Feminism is not about girl power. It is about equal power.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
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• Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Conceited
  • Harmless

• God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

  

  Heraclitus
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  • Peace
  • Summer

• Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.

  

  George Foreman
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• Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.

  

  Plato
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  • Men
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• Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats?

  

  William Powell
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  • Democrat

• I know there will be no more tears in heaven.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
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• If Leekes you like, but do their smell dis-like, Eat Onyons, and you shall not smell the Leeke; If you of Onyons would the scent expell, Eat Garlicke, that shall drowne the Onyons' smell.

  

  William Kitchiner
  • Food
  • Smell
  • Scent

• I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.

  

  Barry Schwartz
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• The postcard is sacred to me. It makes me sad that no one sends them very much anymore because of email and texting. I still like to buy them, but they've lost their original function and now just seem like reminders or mementos of what they used to be.

  

  Elaine Equi
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• All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.

  

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