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The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for

The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems. – Peter Agre

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We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible. – Peter Agre

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My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Moms cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop. – Peter Agre

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Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt. – Peter Agre

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But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts – that is, the meat of the animal itself – should not cause any risk to human health. – Ann Veneman

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As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs. – Michael K. Simpson

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Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of. – Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, 1861

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I fully support a national health care program for the U.S. – Andrew Weil

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Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done. – Michelle Shocked

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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future. – Warren G. Bennis

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My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in womens education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor. – Antonia Fraser

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