"There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis."

-- Emily Oster

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“I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop, but I would recommend strongly that a person maintain his cool, and in no circumstances lose his temper. If you lose your temper, you are playing right into the cop's hands.”

Source : "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, "Postscript", p. 154, 1971.
“The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really add up the way you think they would, and sometimes, not at all.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Patrick started running after the sunset. And Sam immediately followed him. And I saw them in silhouette. Running after the sun.”
“... for no change comes calmly over the world...”

Source : "A Canticle for Leibowitz". Book by Walter M. Miller, Jr., 1960.
“Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing around it, without eliminating the pure witness of being. It is an active receptivity to life.”

Source : Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.51, Anchor
“Excellence has become a habit.”
“The Israelis have a lot of influence with Congress, and in some cases they are able to buy influence.”
“There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.”

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