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Cord blood stem cell units have been shown to be a suitable alternative to adult bone marrow for the treatment of many diseases, including sickle cell anemia. -- Nathan Deal
I invented the cordless extension cord. -- Steven Wright
My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head. -- Kirk Hammett
I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed. -- Carrie Ann Inaba
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round. -- William Butler Yeats
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices. -- Irwin Shaw
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. -- Robert Burton
With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I'm a hands-on father, to say the least. -- Mekhi Phifer
Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards. -- William Whewell
I like to hold the microphone cord like this, I pinch it together, then I let it go, then you hear a whole bunch of jokes at once. -- Mitch Hedberg
In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord. -- Thor Heyerdahl
Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens. -- Jack Horner
But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day. -- Dan Lipinski
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world. -- Rosa DeLauro
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. -- Albert Einstein
My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash. -- Joan Rivers
Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries. -- Nathan Deal
The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research. -- Roger Wicker
We have created a new demonstration program to allow families with a sick child who could be helped with a cord blood transplant from a sibling to bank cord blood from newborns should they decide to have another child. -- Nathan Deal
Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish and turned a small lump of olfactory tissue on its nerve cord into a brain. We think because we smelled. -- Lyall Watson
I was a kid, 12 or something, when the Partridge Family was big on TV. I liked the curly cord running from the bass to the amps, which were real fancy. That cord looked so cool. I said, 'Wow! I gotta play something like that!' -- Steve Vai
You can talk yourself into a good emotional state. I stop for a second, take a deep breath, and think about something that's beautiful. A beautiful thought for me is cutting the umbilical cord for my child. I can guarantee you that your emotional state will change. -- Montel Williams
We need a theory that goes before the Big Bang, and that's String Theory. String Theory says that perhaps two universes collided to create our universe, or maybe our universe is butted from another universe leaving an umbilical cord. Well, that umbilical cord is called a wormhole. -- Michio Kaku
For much of Toyota's history, we have ensured the quality and reliability of our vehicles by placing a device called an andon cord on every production line - and empowering any team member to halt production if there's an assembly problem. Only when the problem is resolved does the line begin to move again. -- Akio Toyoda
You never know how things will last, if they will last, and how people will use them in the future. It was a fun movie for young people at the time in the 80s; but it struck a cord with people and it has lasted so I'm very proud of being a part of that. -- Blair Underwood
Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the spirit, and though so fleeting, it is recognized by the spirit as a soul-speech fresh from the celestial realms, an echo from the home whence we are now exiled, and therefore it touches a cord in our being, regardless of whether we realize the true cause or not. -- Max Heindel
The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull. -- Francis Bacon
For people who like peace and quiet: a phoneless cord. -- Dave Barry
The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds. -- Friedrich Schiller
Bind together your spare hours by the cord of some definite purpose. -- William Taylor
Spiritual is hooked up to the invisible umbilical cord of my Lord, Kumbiya. -- Ludacris
I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying. -- Steven Wright
Once I tried to kill myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying. -- Steven Wright
There's a cord sticking out of the back. Might you tell me where it goes? -- Prince Philip
A telephone cord used to make an excellent leash on people. Now metal chains work better. -- Jarod Kintz
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord. -- John Gregory Dunne
Over the next ten years, everything that has a cord is going to have data in it. -- Tony Fadell
Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly. -- Tariq Ali
Godly fear, faith, and humility is the true threefold cord that can't easily be broken (see Ecclesiastes 4:12). -- John Bevere
I was an ugly kid; when I was born, after the doctor cut the cord, he hung himself. -- Rodney Dangerfield
Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions. -- Clive Sinclair
Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk? -- James Lee Burke
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices -- Irwin Shaw
I was born dead. Yeah, the umbilical cord was like, floppy baby, the whole thing. Yeah, it was bad. -- Charlie Sheen
There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire. -- Moss Hart
Once I had kids, my whole attitude changed. I was like, "You make a spinal cord from scratch and we'll talk." -- Pat Benatar
The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze. -- Edward Young
I'm not saying I'm smarter than Steve Jobs was, but I would have made the iPhone charger cord twice as long. -- Daniel Tosh
He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord. -- Charles Scott Sherrington
Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love. -- Wilferd Peterson
Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future. -- Lee Ezell
If you can strike the cord of consistency on the guitar of life, the world will dance to your music of greatness -- Osho Samuel Adetunji
The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape. -- John Philip Sousa
I bought an electric-powered chain saw with a plug-in cord so if I run away fast enough, you can only chase me so far. -- Laurie Notaro
Hearing people clapping draws you in pretty quick. It's like bungee cord jumping - it's a rush; you just want to do it again. -- Jason Aldean
Faint hearts are encouraged when they read about others who, despite amputation, spinal cord injury, or psychiatric disorders have a vibrant trust and confidence in God. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
Hey birthers, wanna hear my theory? My theory was that Obama was born in America and you were born with the umbilical cord around your neck. -- Bill Maher
When giving, praying, and fasting are practiced together in the life of a believer, it creates a type of threefold cord that is not easily broken. -- Jentezen Franklin
What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent. -- Jeffrey Kluger
You cannot sleep with the enemy and be successful...Every cord that binds you to failure, every cord that binds you to fear, you gotta cut it! -- Eric Thomas
The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren't quite ready to commit suicide but want to get in a little practice. -- George Carlin
Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers. -- Charles Bukowski
Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers -- Charles Bukowski
how much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride. -- Elinor Glyn
What's with the cute shoelace on your head?" "What this?" He flicked the end of the cord with his finger. "Yeah. Rambo called, he wants his bandana back. -- Ilona Andrews
I'll never forget you. Your husband will beat you with an extension cord and the bus will pull away leaving you standing there in tears, but you were my mother. -- Denis Johnson
The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence. -- Lewis Mumford
Most cinema is not about images but text. Why on earth have we based cinema on text? Why can't we break that umbilical cord? Why do we have to pollute cinema? -- Peter Greenaway
It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion. -- Edmund Burke
A Locrian, who proposed any new law, stood forth in the assembly of the people with a cord round his neck, and if the law was rejected, the innovator was instantly strangled. -- Edward Gibbon
Even the two times that I left, I never really felt like I left the band. It's very bizarre. It's like there's sort of an umbilical cord that stretches between us spiritually. -- Rick Wakeman
I had to sever my emotional cord to escape the anger and shame that silently slithered through my head, disconnecting myself from the stares and whispers that followed me down the hall. -- Rebecca Donovan
As Unto the bow the the cord is ,So unto the man is woman;Though she bends him, she obeys him,Though she draws him , yet she follows:Useless each without the other. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Its been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the most infected parts of the cow; that is, the brain and the spinal cord. -- Ann Veneman
Love can be used to drain people. Through eye contact people send a cord out to drain you long distance. Through sexual manipulation, anyone who can make you like them can drain you. -- Frederick Lenz
The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and you see it taking on its own life. There's no greater satisfaction. -- Moshe Safdie
Adult stem cells have shown great potential and have effectively helped patients. Another alternative is cord-blood stem cells. These are a neglected resource that could be used to treat a diverse body of people. -- Jim Ryun

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