#nu

After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#book #bookstore #content #few #glance

In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#bread #doctors #feeling #food #fruits

Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness. ↗

— Dewitt Bodeen

#cling #consciousness #continues #depressions #does

It is important for Americans to recognize that, despite all of the fancy gimmicks and perceived power of modern medicine, the largest explosion of preventable, chronic diseases ever in the history of mankind has occurred as a direct result of modern medicine and scientific reductionism. Modern medicine is not an antidote for the incredible harms caused by the modern food industry, but it is an effective distraction. ↗

— Charles C. Harpe

#diabetes #healthcare-reform-in-the-us #heart-disease #manufactured-food #metabolic-syndrome

We can arrange better expectations and better circumstances beginning with the fact that we need not be who we are now; we can be better. ↗

— Charles C. Harpe

#diabetes #heart-disease #manufactured-food #naturvore #whole-foods

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#awareness #brings #buddha #end #go

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#after #contributions #difference #enormous #face

We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have been abducted, raped and tortured. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#bombed #burned #children #civilians #clear

Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#coming #continue #daily #deadlines #done

I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#cell #cleaning #different #experimental #fascinating