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“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
― Anonymous

“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as "bad luck.”
― Robert Heinlein

“There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

“How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had died: the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater the glory lay around the death; it was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or civilization--it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

“I can’t stop eating. I can’t. I haven’t been hungry in twelve years.”
― Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story

“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”
― Richard Feynman

“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“In 1988, the American Heart Association decided that it would be a good idea to start accepting cash to put its Heart Check symbol on foods of otherwise dubious nutritional quality.”
― Jason Fung, The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss

“But there are no essential carbohydrates and no essential sugars. Those are not required for survival.”
― Jason Fung, The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss

“Whatever comes into your mind for you to speak, ponder over it well before you utter it, for you will discover that much which you were going to say had better remain unspoken.”
― Lorenzo Scupoli, The Spiritual Combat: Classic Edition

“as for many journalists in authority, that his most familiar emotion was one of continuous fear; fear of libel actions, fear of lost advertisements, fear of misprints, fear of the sack.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Father Brown: The Complete Collection

“FRUIT IS NOT A VEGETABLE Although fruits and vegetables are often considered interchangeable, they’re more different than similar, both botanically and metabolically.”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“It was like a fact struggling in the submerged mind and demanding its own meaning.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Father Brown: The Complete Collection

“Only anecdotally did doctors discover the risk of thalidomide.”
― Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

“It didn’t treat any root cause of stress. Instead, it treated vague symptoms and thus allowed doctors to avoid the complicated work of understanding the causes of that stress.”
― Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

“He pushed his drug-company clients to fund CME—continuing medical education—seminars that were increasingly required for doctors to keep their licenses. By funding CME seminars, he saw, drug companies could grab the ears of physicians.”
― Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

“In heroin addicts, I had seen the debasement that comes from the loss of free will and enslavement to what amounts to an idea: permanent pleasure, numbness, and the avoidance of pain. But man’s decay has always begun as soon as he has it all, and is free of friction, pain, and the deprivation that temper his behavior.”
― Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

“Thus addiction exploded—to a drug that people believed was safe because doctors said so.”
― Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

“Out in Washington State, Jaymie Mai and Gary Franklin continued chronicling the effects of what Franklin called “the worst man-made epidemic in history, made by organized medicine.”
― Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

“we work on their nutrition, diet, sleep habits, smoke habits, helping [them] find work—then they improve.”
― Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

“Forget all that; the treatment is you. Take charge of your life and be healthy and do what you love and love what you do.”
― Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”
― Miles Davis