"The two things are synergistic, the health care crisis and the food crisis. Right now, to a large extent, the food industry's biggest product is patients for the health care industry and we have to break that."

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Source : Source: indianapublicmedia.org

Michael Pollan

#Two Quotes #Care Quotes #Patient Quotes

“It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.”
“Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.”

Source : "Self-efficacy: The exercise of control". Book by Albert Bandura (p. 77), February 15, 1997.
“I became an actor because I couldn't not.”
“Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.”
“In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have a precious insurance policy against catastrophe at home. During the next millennium there is a significant chance that civilization on Earth will be destroyed by an asteroid, a killer plague or a global war. A Martian colony could keep the flame of civilization and culture alive until Earth could be reverse-colonized from Mars.”
“not to mention the CIA which should be, I think, dissolved, it's of no use - a great source of mischief - I don't see any point to the FBI...”
“I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.”
“You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.”

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