"Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts of the brain related to attention, emotion, and some autonomic functions."

-- Oliver Sacks

#Blood Quotes #Practice Quotes #Long Quotes

“For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.”
“Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.”
“The truer the facts the better the fiction.”
“The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.”

Source : William Blum (2003). “Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II”, p.15, Zed Books
“I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.”

Source : Source: lasentinel.net
“Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in a clumsy enough way by pasting several linear functions together, each valid in another interval or bracket of income. An archeologist who, five thousand years from now, shall unearth some of our income tax returns together with relics of engineering works and mathematical books, will probably date them a couple of centuries earlier, certainly before Galileo and Vieta.”
“Cyprus was a breath away from economic collapse. It was a big battle in which we came out wounded, but upright and determined to make a fresh start.”
“I tried to learn the violin for a while.”

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