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"Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it's amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done."
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"The summit of Mauna Kea should never have been developed as it is not safe for humans up there. I am now locked into an endless loop of doctors visits for what appears to be classic very high altitude heart, lung & brain damage because I was unfortunate enough to have worked there."
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"Stolen oranges also have Vitamin C. Likewise, a stolen salmon, too, has omega-3 fatty acids."
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"Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six."
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"Most people can only sleep with a nice soft pillow I can only sleep with heavy anti psychotics."
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"I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have."
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"Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily sacrifice of heart over mind,the forever ongoing task of explaining this and that,and why I don't want to look like this and be like thatbut still here I am and if this is the body I've been given I'm sure as hell gonna make it work."
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"What's the use of life without health? It's like living dead."
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"I can't do anything to death, doctor's orders."
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"When your day has been teeming with different sensations, when you have things on your mind, you can get to sleep to start with but you can't get back to sleep. Sleep comes a lot more easily than it comes back."
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"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough."
Man

"Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request."
Business

"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked."
Time

"A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters."
Man

"Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them."
Love

"Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded."
Truth

"I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it."
Advice

"Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds."
Idleness

"An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult."
Insult

"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
Pleasure
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