Category: quotes
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A Brief History of Disease, Science and Medicine by Michael Kennedy
A Brief History of Disease, Science and Medicine: From the ice age to the genome project By Michael Kennedy MD FACS “‘Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as…
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In Defense Of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan
Notes and Quotes: The entire book is an elaboration on: “Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Interesting Quotes: “A few years ago, Rozin presented a group of Americans with the following scenario: ‘Assume you are alone on a desert island for one year and you can have water and one other food. Pick the…
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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
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Unleashing Your Brain’s Potential (Part II)
Last night, I finished Richard Restak – Mozart’s Brain and the Fighter Pilot: Unleashing Your Brain’s Potential while I should have been sleeping. It’s the first book I’ve actually read cover-to-cover since last October. I’ve never read a more mentally and emotionally uplifting book. I felt more alert and appreciative any time I read Restak…
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Unleashing Your Brain’s Potential (Part I)
Notes and Quotes from Richard Restak – Mozart’s Brain and the Fighter Pilot: Unleashing Your Brain’s Potential – Traditionally, neuroscientists believed that once the human brain achieved adult proportions, it remained stable over the next several decades and then underwent an inevitable decline in structure and function. They also believed that lost brain cells could…