Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
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-- Mike Adams Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
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-- John Stuart Mill Dentistry
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
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-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Dentistry I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
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-- Lucille Ball The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Dentistry
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-- Ernest Dimnet We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Dentistry You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
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-- Wilson Mizner Dentistry I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Dentistry
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
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-- John Steinbeck The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
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-- Colin Powell Dentistry
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Dentistry Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
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-- Amy Bloom Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
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-- Fred Allen Dentistry
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
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-- Aldous Huxley Dentistry Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
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-- Billy Sunday Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Dentistry
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
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sea In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Dentistry The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
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The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Dentistry When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
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-- Anon. Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Dentistry
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
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-- Ralph N. Gerard Dentistry "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Dentistry
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
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-- Rita Rudner Dentistry When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Dentistry
