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I wasn't embarrassed that I'd had a stroke, but I just didn't want people to think I was milking it or looking for sympathy. It happened, and I dealt with it. Afterwards, I tried to do what I could for other people who had strokes, speaking at hospitals that treated stroke victims.
Rod Laver / Tennis Player
Sympathy
Embarrassed
Hospitals
Afterwards
Dealt
Speaking
Stroke
Tried
Victims
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My father - a Lebanese-origin small businessman - had a stroke in 1997 and couldn't work anymore. I paused my career and made sure he was taken care of by overseeing the sale of his businesses, but after that, I was able to dedicate myself to politics. It's what I had always wanted.
Fernando Haddad /
Overseeing
Dedicate
Stroke
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The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's and sensory impairments. The question is: What Faustian trade are we making now, as we go after heart disease, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's?
S. Jay Olshansky / Researcher
Cancer
Disease
Heart Disease
Return
Sensory
Additional
Stroke
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The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as a relatively young man of 39 and seemed always to be ill. He was 'high-strung' - intensely neurotic - yet a charismatic personality nonetheless.
Joyce Carol Oates / Author
Men
Charismatic
Complaints
Historical
Ill
Neurotic
Personality
Wilson
Young Man
Suffered
Intensely
Label
Nonetheless
Numerous
Relatively
Seemed
Stroke
Woodrow
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When I would visit my octopus friend, Octavia, at New England aquarium, usually she would look me in the face, flow right over to see me, and flush red with emotion when she took my arms in hers. Often when I'd stroke her she'd turn white beneath my touch, the colour of a relaxed octopus.
Sy Montgomery / Author
Arms
Colour
Emotion
Flow
New England
Octopus
Relaxed
Face Me Look
Beneath
Face Look Me
Flush
Hers
Stroke
Visit
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We certainly had an upheaval at the start of the Great Depression, and that resulted in a lot of financial reform, but it wasn't done in one stroke, and it wasn't done immediately. The Depression was in 1929 and resulted in the Securities and Exchange Act of '33, '34, '35, '37, '39, and '41.
Lloyd Blankfein / Executive
Great Depression
Upheaval
Exchange
Immediately
Resulted
Securities
Stroke
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I think our path to the Olympics is a good metaphor for how you build a company. Our skill and commitment grew over time, day by day, stroke by stroke. So, sports are tied well with our entrepreneurial pursuits because you train for a few years, but there is no guarantee that you will succeed.
Tyler Winklevoss /
Entrepreneurial
Metaphor
Olympics
Tied
Time Good Sports
Guarantee
No Guarantee
Pursuits
Skill
Stroke
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My parents always swore that in my childhood they had to let me win at board games. If, by the lucky stroke of the plastic wheel, my father would accidentally beat me at Candy Land, I would fly into fits of bawling that I'm told would last for hours. If I couldn't triumph, I didn't want to play.
Koren Zailckas / Writer
Candy
Plastic
Triumph
Accidentally
Board
Fits
Stroke
Swore
Wheel
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Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
Joan Didion / Author
Finished
Matter
Nonfiction
Research
Sculpture
Texture
Watercolors
Writing
Go
Thing
Original
Every
Course
Down
Still
Put
Novels
Paintings
Rewrite
Shaping
Specifically
Stroke
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There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.
Bill Bryson / Author
Government
Alcohol
America
American Government
Fifth
Industry
Prohibition
Remarkable
States
United
United States
Years
Just
More
Thing
Pretty
Never
Been
Closed
Criminal
Down
Handed
Production
Stroke
Than
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The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.
David Suzuki / Professor
Diet
Health
Alzheimer
Cancer
Diabetes
Disease
Energy
Exercise
Healthy
Healthy Diet
Heart
Heart Disease
Literature
Moving
Muscles
Oil
Risk
Bodies
Effective
Evolved
Instead
Move
Problems
Reduce
Stroke
Tells
Ways
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My dad had a stroke. It's one of those life-changing events. It was right around the time I was turning 40. We were doing 'L.A. Law,' and I got this call that my dad was in Rome and had had a stroke. I want to stress that it wasn't a huge stroke, but it was enough to provide a serious wake-up call.
Corbin Bernsen / Actor
Huge
Life Changing
Rome
Serious
Stress
Wake Up Call
Turning
Provide
Stroke
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Our only president who has died as U.S. commander in chief in war is Franklin Delano Roosevelt - who died of a cerebral hemorrhage or massive stroke on April 12, 1945, only three weeks before the unconditional surrender of the German armed forces he had laid down as implacable Allied policy two years before.
Nigel Hamilton / Biographer
April
Armed Forces
Cerebral
Massive
Surrender
Unconditional
Allied
Armed
German
Chief
Commander
Forces
Implacable
Laid
Roosevelt
Stroke
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If you have the feeling of choice, if you feel free, you will be better off. And when I say better off I mean that if people feel they have control over their lives, they call in for fewer sick days from work. They have a lesser probability of having a heart attack or stroke. They live longer. They're happier.
Sheena Iyengar / Professor
Better Off
Fewer
Heart
Mean
People
Probability
Sick
Work Heart Better
Attack
Lesser
Stroke
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Remember one thing about ESPN: People can be critical of them sometimes for being a large corporation but nine years ago I had a stroke and I couldn't talk. That's the way I made my living. ESPN could've dumped me very easy, but they didn't. They helped me and presented me an opportunity to get back on the air.
Lee Corso / Coach
Air
Critical
Dumped
Espn
Nine
Years Ago
Corporation
Helped
Large
Presented
Stroke
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When people hear that I'm a neuroscientist, they ask me tough questions. 'Will grandpa learn to walk again after his stroke?' 'How can my son overcome his dyslexia?' 'What could have caused my best friend to become schizophrenic?' When I can't give satisfying answers, they look disappointed - and I feel embarrassed.
Sebastian Seung /
Best Friend
Answers
Disappointed
Dyslexia
Embarrassed
Grandpa
Satisfying
Schizophrenic
Son
Tough
Caused
Overcome
Best Walk Me
Questions
Best Walk Look
Stroke
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Our articles of confederation ought to be revised and measures immediately taken to invigorate the Continental Union. Depend upon it: there lies the danger for America. This last stroke is wanting, and unless the states be strongly bound to each other, we have to fear from British and, indeed, from European politics.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
America
Articles
British
Confederation
Continental
Danger
States
Taken
Bound
Depend
Each
European
Immediately
Indeed
Last
Lies
Measures
Other
Union
Revised
Stroke
Wanting
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
Vince Cable / British Politician
Environmental
Cat
Cutting
Pleasure
Thinking
Fat
Cats
Worker
Confront
Generate
Stroke
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I took my basic training on a golf course in Florida. Then I was on the boxing team. We did some demonstrations, and they put me in a theater one night and wanted me to box. So OK, I came out boxing with a friend - thinking we would just spar around - but the guy walked out, hit me, and knocked me out with one stroke.
Mort Walker / Comic Strip Creator
Boxing
Florida
Golf
Golf Course
Theater
Training
Thinking Me Night
Box
Basic
Demonstrations
Thinking Night Me
Stroke
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If one of you pass out and go to the emergency room, the hospital has to see you. But when you go to the emergency room, you've had a stroke, or you've had a heart attack. If you had preventative medicine, you could maybe be taking your high blood pressure medicine so you wouldn't have a stroke and cut down the costs.
Corrine Brown / U.s. Representative
Blood Pressure
Emergency Room
High Blood Pressure
Medicine
Attack
Costs
Emergency
Hospital
Stroke
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Barack Obama winning the election had an instant impact on everything - race relations, national self-esteem, tolerance. It also had an instant affect on 'Frost/Nixon.' At a stroke, instead of being a piece that reminded people of the agony they were in, it became an uplifting message about the agony they had escaped.
Peter Morgan / Film Writer
Uplifting
Agony
Barack
Election
Impact
Instant
Race Relations
Self Esteem
Tolerance
Winning
Obama
Affect
Barack Obama
Escaped
Piece
Relations
Stroke
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The history of science and culture is filled with stories of how many of the greatest scientific and artistic discoveries occurred while the creator was not thinking about what he was working on, not consciously anyway - the daydreaming mode solved the problem for him, and the answer appeared suddenly as a stroke of insight.
Daniel Levitin / Neuroscientist
Creator
Daydreaming
Filled
Insight
Appeared
Discoveries
Mode
Occurred
Scientific
Solved
Stroke
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I did some background work for a movie called 'Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius' in Atlanta and got bit by the bug. That was it. I saved a few thousand dollars and packed up my car. I had hoped that I would start working just doing some modeling stuff or something while I studied acting. I thought I could support myself that way.
Matt Lanter / Actor
Atlanta
Dollars
Modeling
Saved
Support
Thousand
Background
Bobby
Bug
Hoped
Packed
Stroke
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Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
Ingrid Newkirk / Activist
Running
Diet
Animal
Cancer
Heart
Human Beings
Important Things
Liberation
Linked
Poor
Afford
Attack
Beings
Perhaps
Runs
Stroke
The Most Important
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There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.
Carl Honore / Journalist
Fixing
Tape
Administer
Channel
Chin
Option
Solution
Stroke
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