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“Autarky has never promoted prosperity.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“α = r × β where r is the rate of return on capital. For example, if β = 600% and r = 5%, then α = r × β = 30%.13 In other words, if national wealth represents the equivalent of six years of national income, and if the rate of return on capital is 5 percent per year, then capital’s share in national income is 30 percent. The formula α = r × β is a pure accounting identity. It can be applied to all societies in all periods of history, by definition. Though tautological, it should nevertheless be regarded as the first fundamental law of capitalism, because it expresses a simple, transparent relationship among the three most important concepts for analyzing the capitalist system: the capital/income ratio, the share of capital in income, and the rate of return on capital. The rate of return on capital is a central concept in”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“Other things being equal, strong demographic growth tends to play an equalizing role because it decreases the importance of inherited wealth: every generation must in some sense construct itself.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” ―Mark Twain”
― Erlend Bakke, Never Work Again: Work Less, Earn More and Live Your Freedom

“Alice sighed wearily. 'I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, 'than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“If you’re trying to start a new behavior and you find it enjoyable, it will be easy to change and make it a habit.”
― Max Ogles, Boost: Create Good Habits Using Psychology and Technology

“Inequalities with respect to labor usually seem mild, moderate, and almost reasonable (to the extent that inequality can be reasonable—this point should not be overstated). In comparison, inequalities with respect to capital are always extreme.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“We assume that a large brain, the use of tools, superior learning abilities and complex social structures are huge advantages. It seems self-evident that these have made humankind the most powerful animal on earth. But humans enjoyed all of these advantages for a full 2 million years during which they remained weak and marginal creatures. Thus humans who lived a million years ago, despite their big brains and sharp stone tools, dwelt in constant fear of predators, rarely hunted large game, and subsisted mainly by gathering plants, scooping up insects, stalking small animals, and eating the carrion left behind by other more powerful carnivores.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws, and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“No event is so terribly well adapted to inspire the supremeness of bodily and of mental distress, as is burial before death… . What I have now to tell is of my own actual knowledge—of my own positive and personal experience. —Edgar Allan Poe, “The Premature Burial”
― Sanjay Gupta, Cheating Death: The Doctors and Medical Miracles that Are Saving Lives Against All Odds

“Deficiencies of innate ability may be compensated for through persistent hard work and concentration. One might say that work substitutes for talent, or better yet that it creates talent.”6 —Santiago Ramón y Cajal”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“They must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have the imagination to invent them.”
― Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

“The Cooper Union Address, the Gettysburg Address, the House Divided Speech, the First Inaugural Address, and the Second Inaugural were all performed by Lincoln prior to and during his term in office. To this day, they are still hailed as oratorical masterpieces.”
― Mark Black, Abraham Lincoln : A Very Brief History

“Housing is the favorite investment of the middle class and moderately well-to-do, but true wealth always consists primarily of financial and business assets.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“High-traffic areas are the most problematic. Australian researchers recently asked test subjects to jog back and forth alongside a four-lane highway and found elevated blood levels of volatile organic compounds, commonly found in gasoline, after just 20 minutes. But pollution levels drop exponentially as you move away from a roadway, according to a 2006 study in the journal Inhalation Toxicology. Even just 200 yards from the road, the level of combustion-related particulates is four times lower, and trees have a further protective effect—so riverside bike trails, for instance, have dramatically lower pollution levels than bike lanes along major arteries.”
― Alex Hutchinson, Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?: Fitness Myths, Training Truths, and Other Surprising Discoveries from the Science of Exercise

“It’s this loss of muscular power, rather than strength, that causes the most problems for seniors in day-to-day life—which is why researchers now recommend that seniors include at least some power-building exercises in their program”
― Alex Hutchinson, Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?: Fitness Myths, Training Truths, and Other Surprising Discoveries from the Science of Exercise

“High-protein plants Spinach (3 cups, cooked): 15 g of protein Asparagus (3 cups, cooked): 12 g Lentils (1 cup, cooked): 18 g Oats (½ cup, dry): 13 g Quinoa (1 cup, cooked): 8 g”
― Alex Hutchinson, Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?: Fitness Myths, Training Truths, and Other Surprising Discoveries from the Science of Exercise

“Earlier studies with dogs and goats have suggested that brain temperature, rather than core temperature, might control the limit of exercise tolerance in the heat.”
― Alex Hutchinson, Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?: Fitness Myths, Training Truths, and Other Surprising Discoveries from the Science of Exercise

“In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these two means, man can attain perfection. —Plato”
― John J. Ratey, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

“The mental and physical diseases we face in old age are tied together through the cardiovascular system and metabolic system. A”
― John J. Ratey, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

“Exercise Is Medicine,” so”
― John J. Ratey, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

“weight during a taper simply because they do not adjust their caloric intake appropriately. Carbohydrate and fat provide most of the energy to the body. Carbohydrate is broken down into sugar, and while some sugar”
― Dave Salo, Complete Conditioning for Swimming

“About 20 percent of older adults who break a hip die within a year.”
― John J. Ratey, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

“Remember: Aquatic heart rates are about 10–15 beats per minute less than your terrestrial target heart rate. If”
― Karl Knopf, Make the Pool Your Gym: No-Impact Water Workouts for Getting Fit, Building Strength and Rehabbing from Injury

“Another precaution is to avoid overflexion of the knee joint when doing quadriceps stretches (i.e., bringing the heel toward the buttocks). Practice”
― Karl Knopf, Make the Pool Your Gym: No-Impact Water Workouts for Getting Fit, Building Strength and Rehabbing from Injury

“Baby formula contains three salts: magnesium chloride, potassium chloride, and sodium chloride.”
― Mark Kurlansky, Salt

“Do not expect the world to facilitate you if you are not willing to adapt yourself. Let’s”
― Bill Hoffmann, Journeys To Success: 20 Empowering Stories Inspired By The Principles of Napoleon Hill

“Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“In Hebei Province, in the heart of China’s northern grain belt, the average water level in the deep aquifer is dropping nearly three meters a year. Underground”
― Edward O. Wilson, Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life

“Marie Curie never rang more true to me or felt more relevant: “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Thomas L. Friedman, Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations