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“To teach, if we are called upon; to be taught, if we are fortunate. - 1977, Voyager Golden Record”
― Becky Chambers

“It was always a strange thing, coming home. Coming home meant that you had, at one point, left it and, in doing so, irreversibly changed. How odd, then, to be able to return to a place that would always be anchored in your notion of the past. How could this place still be there, if the you that once lived there no longer existed?
Yet, at the same time, in complete contradiction, seeing that said place had changed in your absence was nothing if not surreal. Dex felt this as they approached the road leading to their family's farm, just as they felt every time they made the trip. The road was the same, but the fence had been mended. The field was the same, but the greyberry bushes had been cut down to the root. The farm was a place where Dex knew they would always be welcome but never in the same way as before they left; a place they knew intimately and no longer knew at all.”
― Becky Chambers

“It is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”
― Becky Chambers, Monk and Robot

“It was always a strange thing coming home. Coming home meant that you had, at one point, left it and in doing so, irreversibly changed. How odd then to be able to return to a place that would always be anchored in your notion of the past? How could this place still be there if the you that once lived there no longer existed?”
― Becky Chambers

“how does the idea of maybe being meaningless sit well with you?” Mosscap considered. “Because I know that no matter what, I’m wonderful”
― Becky Chambers, Monk and Robot

“The Enhanced were a society. A machine. And no matter what the sims said about the power of a single solitary hero, there were some things just too big to change alone. There was nothing she could do but help herself and Owl.”
― Becky Chambers

“To teach, if we are called upon; to be taught, if we are fortunate.”
― Becky Chambers

“Advanced Program After you have acclimated to WBV and built up your tolerance and strength, you can maximize the health and wellness workout benefits by following these training tips. Whole body vibration exercise is much more intense than conventional exercises. Workout times can be drastically shortened; you can accomplish the same results in ten minutes that would take you sixty minutes with conventional exercise. This is true because WBV requires your body to constantly respond to the rapidly moving platform beneath you. Four factors determine how effective and challenging your training sessions are: 1. the frequency (rate of vibration) 2. the position or posture you assume 3. the amount of time you spend holding a given position 4. the amount of weight you are supporting on the plate (if you want a more challenging workout, hold additional exercise weights)”
― Becky Chambers, Whole Body Vibration: The Future of Good Health

“The development and use of vibration in the 1970s allowed Russian cosmonauts to be in space twice as long as their nonvibrating American counterparts (approximately two hundred days versus one hundred days). More recently, a NASA website cited the effects of vibration on turkeys, sheep, and rats as “profound . . . promoting near-normal rates of bone formation”[21] under laboratory conditions simulating the zero gravity conditions of space flight.”
― Becky Chambers, Whole Body Vibration: The Future of Good Health

“Despite their number and close proximity, none of the treetops were touching one another. It was as though someone had taken an eraser and run it clearly through the canopy, transforming each tree into its own small island contained within a definitive border of blue sky. The effect reminded Dex of puzzle pieces laid out on the table, each in their own place yet still unconnected. It wasn't that the trees were unhealthy or their foliage sparse. On the contrary, every tree was lush and full, bursting with green life. Yet somehow, in the absence of contact, they knew exactly where to stop growing outward so that they might give their neighbors space to thrive.”
― Becky Chambers, Monk and Robot

“If you believe you have control, then you believe you're at the top. And if you're at the top then those who aren't like you are...well they've got to be somewhere lower then...”
― Becky Chambers, Wayfarers Series 4-Book Set

“I think like you do. Which makes sense, after all. Someone like you made us. How could I think any other way?”
― Becky Chambers

“A verdade, Rosemary, é que você é capaz de qualquer coisa. Boa ou ruim. Sempre foi e sempre será. Sob determinadas circunstâncias, você também seria capaz de coisas terríveis. Essa escuridão existe dentro de todos nós.”
― Becky Chambers, Wayfarers Series

“Rosemary turned away from her ship, away from her companion, turned out to face the void. There was a nebula there, an explosion of dust and light, the fiery corpse of an ancient giant. Within the gaseous folds slept clusters of unborn stars, shining softly. She took inventory of her body. She felt her breath, her blood, the ties binding it all together. Every piece, down to the last atom, had been made out here, flung through the open in a moment of violence, until they had swirled round and round, churning and coalescing, becoming heavy, weighing each other down. But not anymore. The pieces were floating free now. They had returned home.
She was exactly where she was supposed to be.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“What if it’s enough to just be…”

Us, Dex knew Mosscap meant, though the robot didn’t finish.”
― Becky Chambers

“Whole body vibration is a natural, safe, rapid, nonaddictive, and legal way to increase serotonin and norepinephrine.”
― Becky Chambers, Whole Body Vibration for Seniors

“Then how,” Dex said, “how does the idea of maybe being meaningless sit well with you?” Mosscap considered. “Because I know that no matter what, I’m wonderful.”
― Becky Chambers

“Progressive Training Plan I recommend progressively phasing in the following elements to increase the difficulty of your workout. As your body adapts and grows stronger, you can continue to challenge yourself with these methods. 1. Extend the time of each exercise. 2.  Reduce the rest period between exercises. 3. Increase the number of sets per exercise. 4. Perform exercise statically (standing still) then dynamically (moving). 5. Add more challenging exercises. 6.  Increase the frequency (Hz). 7.  Incorporate unilateral exercises (perform exercise on one leg). 8. Incorporate holding increasing amounts of additional weight.”
― Becky Chambers, Whole Body Vibration: The Future of Good Health

“While the exact ratio does depend on which machine you use and how you use it (whether you work out or just stand on the plate), forty years of research and the devotion of thousands of professional athletes and elite users, including Shaquille O’Neil, Jane Fonda, Madonna, the Denver Broncos, and the Tennessee Titans, attest to WBV’s effectiveness.”
― Becky Chambers, Whole Body Vibration: The Future of Good Health

“The same review of obesity research mentioned earlier also reported a large decrease in fasting insulin levels, which is an indication of improving insulin and glucose metabolism, lowering the risk of insulin resistance, prediabetic and diabetic conditions, high blood sugar levels, and hyperglycemia.”
― Becky Chambers, Whole Body Vibration: The Future of Good Health

“The kit was restrictive. It wasn’t enough. But it was also autonomous. It was hers. Nobody could force her to raise a hand or walk across the room. In the kit, she could walk when she wanted to walk, and sit when she wanted to sit. She could run. She could hug. She could dance. If she could alter her own code, then the kit wasn’t the end limit either. For all the things the kit wasn’t, there was much it still could be. ‘Tak, could you open the storage compartment to your left, please?’ Sidra asked. ‘I think I’d like to be in my body for a little while.”
― Becky Chambers

“You’ve got to get university certification for parenting, just as you do for, say being a doctor or an engineer. No offence to you or your species, but going into the business of creating life without any sort of formal prep is…’ He laughed. ‘It’s baffling. But then, I’m biased.”
― Becky Chambers

“They believed in their work; they truly did. They believed the things they said, the sacred words they quoted. They believed they were doing good.

Why wasn't it enough?”
― Becky Chambers

“Feeling a lack of energy and zest? WBV may be just what you need. There are numerous physiological effects of WBV that increase energy, including raising levels of testosterone (linked to both men’s and women’s sexual libidos and energy levels). WBV also increases circulation, bringing nutrients and oxygen to all cells, and the antidepressant effect also sends new energy through your mind and body. The rejuvenating effects of WBV in all these areas can be attributed in part to increasing human growth hormone, the body’s major repair, regrowth, and anti-aging hormone.”
― Becky Chambers, Whole Body Vibration for Seniors

“Fosamax, Actonel, Boniva, and Reclast achieve an increase in bone density by halting your body’s natural ability to reabsorb old and damaged bone.”
― Becky Chambers, Whole Body Vibration: The Future of Good Health

“Meanwhile, several studies have shown decreased inflammation with WBV by looking at levels of specific molecules in the body that are associated with inflammation (inflammation markers).”
― Becky Chambers, Whole Body Vibration for Seniors

“Feeling a lack of energy and zest? WBV may be just what you need. Chapter 5 looks at the numerous physiological effects of WBV that increase energy, including rising levels of testosterone (linked to both men’s and women’s sexual libidos and energy levels). WBV also increases circulation, bringing nutrients and oxygen to all cells, and the antidepressant effect also sends new energy through your mind and body.”
― Becky Chambers, Whole Body Vibration: The Future of Good Health

“Vibrant Health Power 1000:”
― Becky Chambers, Whole Body Vibration: The Future of Good Health

“WBV provides . . . small high frequency signals to many areas and bones intensively, all at once, and with minimal effort. Just standing on a vibrating plate will cause all muscle fibers . . . to involuntarily contract and release twenty to fifty times per second”
― Becky Chambers, Whole Body Vibration: The Future of Good Health

“Extensive research over the last forty years has shown that WBV safely promotes and increases bone density, more so than conventional exercise, which has long been understood to be important for healthy bone development.”
― Becky Chambers, Whole Body Vibration for Seniors