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  2. He who does not work, neither shall he eat - Wikipedia

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    "He who doesn't work, doesn't eat" – Soviet poster issued in Uzbekistan, 1920. He who does not work, neither shall he eat is an aphorism from the New Testament traditionally attributed to Paul the Apostle, later cited by John Smith in the early 1600s colony of Jamestown, Virginia, and broadly by the international socialist movement, from the United States [1] to the communist revolutionary ...

  3. Failure is not an option - Wikipedia

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    Failure is not an option. "Failure is not an option" is a phrase associated with NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz and the Apollo 13 Moon landing mission. Although Kranz is often attributed with having spoken those words during the mission, he did not actually say the phrase. The origin of the phrase is from the preparation for the 1995 film ...

  4. Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Wikipedia

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    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comic science fiction series created by Douglas Adams that has become popular among fans of the genre and members of the scientific community. Phrases from it are widely recognised and often used in reference to, but outside the context of, the source material.

  5. Apraxia of lid opening - Wikipedia

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    Apraxia of lid opening. In ophthalmology, apraxia of lid opening (ALO) is an inability to initiate voluntary opening of the eyelid following a period of eyelid closure, with normal function at other times. Manual lifting of the eyelid often resolves the problem and the lid is able to stay open.

  6. The One Look a Pet Behaviorist Is Begging Dog Owners to ... - AOL

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    As dog behaviorist Kerry Stack, founder of Darwin Dogs Training, says, dog bites simply don’t happen out of the blue. “By learning the communication cues given by dogs, situations of ...

  7. Turning a blind eye - Wikipedia

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    Turning a blind eye. Turning a blind eye is an idiom describing the ignoring of undesirable information. Although the Oxford English Dictionary records usage of the phrase as early as 1698, [ 1] the phrase to turn a blind eye is often attributed to an incident in the life of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson. Nelson was blinded in one eye early in ...

  8. Blind spot (vision) - Wikipedia

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    Blind spot (vision) In vertebrate eyes, the nerve fibers route before the retina, blocking some light and creating a blind spot where the fibers pass through the retina and out of the eye. In octopus eyes, the nerve fibers route behind the retina, and do not block light or disrupt the retina. In the example, 4 denotes the vertebrate blind spot ...

  9. Aniseikonia - Wikipedia

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    Aniseikonia. Aniseikonia is an ocular condition where there is a significant difference in the perceived size of images. It can occur as an overall difference between the two eyes, or as a difference in a particular meridian. [ 1] If the ocular image size in both eyes are equal, the condition is known as iseikonia. [ 2]