Tag: health
member name: Bill Allin
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September 17, 2006 04:58 PM EDT --
"Circumstances do not make the man, they merely reveal himself to himself."
- Epictetus, Greek/Roman philosopher (c.55 – c.135 C.E.)
This assumes the desire and willingness to find out . . .
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December 21, 2006 01:34 PM EST --
Some do. However, some eat like sparrows. The theory about overeating being the sole cause of obesity doesn’t hold up under scrutiny.
What it’s good for is as a weapon for bigots who want . . .
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March 10, 2007 04:58 PM EST --
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
- Ernest Hemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961)
Hemingway, who took his own life in 1961, knew his share of both intelligent . . .
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August 23, 2006 05:17 PM EDT --
"I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism."
- Charles M Schwab, . . .
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February 10, 2007 07:47 PM EST --
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
- H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
Since Mencken's time medical science . . .
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July 28, 2006 06:33 PM EDT --
"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."
- Lord Byron, English poet (1788–1824)
This message is not one grounded in attributable fact, but one based on reason. Therefore I make . . .
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August 08, 2006 07:47 PM EDT --
"It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish." . . .
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September 26, 2006 07:34 PM EDT --
Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
- Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
Set aside what we know today that . . .
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October 21, 2006 01:42 PM EDT --
"You lose a lot of time hating people.
- Marian Anderson, ground-breaking African-American singer (1897–1993)
I'm going to go so far as to say that you lose a certain amount of your life, . . .
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October 27, 2006 07:10 PM EDT --
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
- Robert Lynd, writer (1879-1949)
Aye, there's the rub.
How can I help others with their suffering if I . . .
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November 05, 2006 04:37 PM EST --
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
- Mohandas K. ("The Mahatma") Gandhi
Far be it for me to disagree with Mr. Gandhi, but I would . . .
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November 08, 2006 08:08 AM EST --
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
- Confucius
It seems that everyone in the western world believes that time moves faster as we get older. Days, weeks and years . . .
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November 18, 2006 04:41 PM EST --
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."
- Mark Twain
Some people can't cope with it. Either success of some sort of a clean version of good example drives . . .
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February 08, 2007 03:55 PM EST --
"The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you . . .
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March 02, 2007 06:59 PM EST --
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
- Marilyn French
Fear is a mysterious question for many people. People are . . .
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September 13, 2006 06:12 PM EDT --
"Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who . . .
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September 18, 2006 08:02 PM EDT --
"It has struck me that people who aren't getting enough sex are always very fascinated by it, even if the fascination takes the form of them being very very cross that other people are getting . . .
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October 22, 2006 06:05 PM EDT --
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to
find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a
necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful . . .
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September 09, 2006 07:40 PM EDT --
"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most . . .
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August 14, 2006 09:47 PM EDT --
"Who never sold the truth to serve the hour,
Nor paltered with Eternal God for power."
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), poet laureate, eulogizing the Duke of Wellington.
[palter - 1. To talk . . .
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