"The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution."

-- A. J. Jacobs

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“Although the events we appear to perceive in dreams are illusory, our feelings in response to dream content are real. Indeed, most of the events we experience in dreams are real; when we experience feelings, say, anxiety or ecstasy, in dreams, we really do feel anxious or ecstatic at the time.”
“What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils ...”

Source : Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1102, BookCaps Study Guides
“If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.”
“As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.”
“The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.”
“God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.”

Source : Derek Prince (2012). “Rules of Engagement: Preparing for Your Role in the Spiritual Battle”, p.66, Baker Books
“What is particularly intriguing, in fact, is that whereas many peoples tend to locate this experience (of the sacred) in certain unusual, if not 'supernatural' moments and circumstances . . . the Oriental focus is upon mystery in the most obvious, ordinary, mundane-the most natural-situations of life.”
“Love is action. It's clear, it's kind, it's effortless, and it's irresistible.”

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