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You can have all the physical abili... MICHAEL JORDAN You have to build up to green smoothies. Everyone loves fruit smoothies: you can add a handful of ba... MICHAEL GREGER As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt:... MICHAEL GREGER In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, inco... MICHAEL SHERMER Some travelers collect souvenirs, postcards, or bumper stickers; I bring home a pencil from the vari... MICHAEL DIRDA Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical ... MICHAEL BEHE My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-st... MICHAEL KEATON In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the governm... MICHAEL MCCAUL I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough f... MICHAEL KORDA