"Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things."

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Source : Virgil (1852). “The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil: With English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, and a Metrical Index”, p.336

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“Without the ball, you can't win.”
“I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.”
“For example, in Vitamin K, the clotting proteins get it first... and only after they're satisfied do you prevent calcification of the arteries, or prevent cancer, or prevent bone fractures. It's all insidious damage that you get that's a long term consequence. In fact, we call these the diseases of aging.”

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