"I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives."

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Source : "Hearts and Minds" by Roberto Suro, New York Times Magazine, December 29, 1991.

Dean Ornish

#Cutting Quotes #People Quotes #Drug Quotes

“For me, Christianity is not a genre. It's faith. The Gospel is not a genre either. It's faith. I definitely understand the semantics of naming things to give them some kind of distinction but I think my faith is pretty distinct. If you want to call it hip hop, essentially it is. That's the art form.”
“Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.”
“Are you smiling? I'm so angry it kills me. So angry I'm going crazy. I'm just going to wait today. Just today.”
“I've always had good mechanics and stuff like that.”
“Only one thing matters: live a good, happy life. Do your heart's bidding, even when it leads you on paths that timid souls would avoid. Even when life is a torment, don't let it harden you.”
“Mindful of the fact you live in an agricultural country, I presume you know what an ass is. We read in the New Testament that our blessed Lord rode on an ass in triumph into the city of Jerusalem. Today the Lord rides on another ass: I myself.”
“Does fashion matter? Always - though not quite as much after death.”
“So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.”

Source : Speech delivered to the Bombay Presidency Mahar Conference, www.columbia.edu. May 31, 1936.

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