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“any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.”
Source : Mary Heaton Vorse, Dee Garrison (1985). “Rebel pen: the writings of Mary Heaton Vorse”, Monthly Review Pr
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“One reason milk consumption may lead to cancer risk is insulin-like growth factor, IGF-1 (not to be confused with bovine growth hormone, rBGH). Milk contains IGF-1 for good reason: milk is designed for babies, and IGF-1 helps us grow. IGF-1 affects growth, as well as other functions, and is normally found in our blood. Higher levels of IGF-1, however, appear to stimulate cancer cells.”
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“What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.”
Source : FaceBook post by Rohinton Mistry from Jan 13, 2013 
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“If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better daytime TV programming.”
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“When you quit drinking you stop waiting.”
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“Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.”
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“People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.”
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“Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.”
Source : "With Truth as Our Sword". Book by C. E. Sylvester, February 2005.
