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QOTD: Paul Campos
“[Harvard professor of epidemiology and nutrition] Walter Willett says most people would be healthier if they had a BMI below 22. It’s as if he said most people would be healthier if they were more than 6 feet tall. It…
QOTD: Mary Wollstonecraft
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. –Mary Wollstonecraft, reformer and writer (1759-1797)
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. –Henry Ford
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Inaction saps the vigor of the mind. –Leonardo da Vinci
Poem: Happiness
Happiness –Michael Van Walleghen Weep for what little things could make them glad. –Robert Frost, Directive Melvin, the large collie who lives in the red house at the end of my daily run is happy, happy to see me even…
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. –Luther Burbank, horticulturist (1849-1926)
QOTD: John Holt
Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. Leadership…
QOTD: Television
Television’s perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the…