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"It is in vain for an Unbeliever to take up the outward shew of another Mans profession. Faith only, and inward Sincerity, are the things, are the things that procure acceptence with God." - Don't the Catholics have a different view on this?

"It is in vain for an Unbeliever to take up the outward shew of another Mans profession. Faith only, and inward Sincerity, are the things, are the things that procure acceptence with God." - Don't the Catholics have a different view on this?

"It is in vain for an Unbeliever to take up the outward shew of another Mans profession. Faith only, and inward Sincerity, are the things, are the things that procure acceptence with God." - Don't the Catholics have a different view on this?

"Let any man pull down, or build, or make whatsoever Expenses he pleases; no body murmurs..." - Obviously planning permission was not so contentious in the 17th century.

"No peace and security, no not so much as Common Friendship, can ever be established or preserved among Men, so long as this Opinion prevails, That Dominion is founded in Grace*, and that Religion is to be propagated by force of Arms." - the same good be said of any totalitarian ideology.

xxvi "We may wish that our rulers are godly, but, strictly speaking, there is no such thing as 'godly rule' or a 'Christian Comnonwealth'. With some exaggeration, we may say that Locke here broke with a millenium of 'godly rule'.

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"Even though [packaged cereals] may ... be 100% whole wheat, they are handled by the body very differently. When grains are ground into flour or puffed, they are digested more rapidly and more completely. This increases their glycemic index and leaves fewer leftovers from the friendly flora down in your colon" - if I were to write a book on nutrition, if would be about how it is affected by food processing.

"Hospitals are terrible places to be and terrible places to die. That is why each of us needs to take care of ourselves." - not just in Hungary then.

"There is a rare form of dwarfism called Laron syndrome that is caused by the body's inability to produce IGF- [insulin-like growth factor 1]. Affected individuals grow to be only a few feet tall, but they also never get cancer." - there is no panacea, only costs and benefits.

"Watching your animal-to-plant protein ratio might be useful for cancer prevention in general" - he just doesn't admit that animal protein has any benefits, but it seems necessary to complete the 12-a-day deficiencies

"Serotonin can't cross the blood-brain barrier. This means that dietary sources of serotonin can't make it into the brain, but the building blocks of serotonin, an amino acid called trytophan ... can..."

"Nitrate-rich vegatables may prove to be cost-effective, affordable, and favourable health approach to hypertension."

"The study found that calorie for calorie, those eating vegetarian diets were getting higher intakes of nearly every nutrient: more fibre, more vitamin A, more vitamin C, more vitamin E, more of the B vitamins thiamin, riboflavin, and folate, as well as more calcium, magnesium, iron, and potassium." - but fewer calories all together.

"No born Londoner ... now says 'bloody', unless he is a man of some education. The word has, in fact, moved up the social scale and ceased to be a swear word for ... the working classes. The current London adjective, now tacked onto every noun, is 'fucking'. No doubt in time 'fucking' like 'bloody'. will find its way into the drawing-room and be replaced by some other word." - likewise 'cunt'?

"...giving up meat entirely is an effective way to combat childhood obesity, pointing to population studies demonstrating that people eating plant-based diets are consistently thinner than those who eat meat." - eating vegetables is much harder way of obtaining calories than eating meat. Could all the longevity benefits of a plant based diet simply be the longevity benefits of calorie restriction?

"In the ancient world, this was understood by the Christians, our only (if very imperfect) predecessors: Humility is a virtue, pride a vice; We comes from God, I from the Devil." - rationalist ideologies as religions

"And the natural path from nullity to greatness is this: Forget that you're a gram and feel yourself a millioneth part of a ton." - most leaders of movements persuade you to do exactly this.

"Given the scandalously ill-regulated supplement market, its hard to know what you try to buy "food" in supplement bottles." - EU v. US regulations?

"The effect of the American Presidency with its power of appointment in the Executive branch is overbearing...If [appointees] are Cabinet officers, they have in the American system no parliamentary seat to return to from which they may retain a voice in government." - presidencial vs. parliamentary democracy.

"He quoted John Quincy Adams dictum that wherever the standard of liberty is unfurled in the world, 'there will be America's heart...but she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy."

"In the American forces, short term one-year tours of duty, intended to avoid discontent, prevented adaptation to irregular jungle warfare, thereby increasing casualties since the rate was always highest in the early months of duty".

"Any Number has the right of access to any other Number as sexual product" - We, BNW, 1984 all had a dystopian vision of sexuality, but each vision is different.

xxiii "(an English translation has no other point to make the characters English speakers) - This strikes me as wrong. English speakers when and where? Insight into other cultures, and languages?

"Here was a sign of the vanity of nation-building. What nation has ever been built from outside."

"Reminiscient of British visions of ruin if they lost the American colonies, prophesies of exaggerated catastrophe if we lost Vietnam served to increase the stakes."

"...if Americans could have seen the value of accepting a strongly nationalist North Vietnam, Communist or not, a vigourous, independent, intensely anti-Chinese nation would have been a far better barrier against against the feared Chinese expansion than a divided warring country offering every opportunity for interference from across the border."

"One thing was left out of account - the other side. War is a polarity. What if the other side failed to respond rationally to the coercive message?"

"The witch-hunts of McCarthyism, of the House Un-American Activities Committee, the informers, the blacklists and the fire-eaters of the Republican right and the China lobby, the trail of wrecked careers, had plunged the country into a fit of moral cowardice. Everyone, in and out of office, trembled in anxiety to prove his anti-Communist credentials..."