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Bruno: I don't understand. One man caused all this trouble?
//////////////////Bruno: He used to be a doctor once, but gave it all up to peel potatoes.
/////////////////////Padre Francisco: Freedom without a life is not freedom.
Ramón Sampedro: A life without freedom is not a life.
//////////////////////Joaquín: There's only one thing worse than having your son die on you... him wanting to.
////////////////////////Ramón Sampedro: When you can't escape, and you constantly rely on everyone else, you learn to cry by smiling, you know?
////////////////////////////Rosa: Love is an impulse. You can't rationalize it.
//////////////////////////ROWAN 100 YRS AFTER TUNGUSKA
//////////////////////////IDEA DTR EDU- HMWRKS OVER WKENDS
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///////////////////////////////L BRMSTRONG= George Orwell, “serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, with jealousy, with boastfulness, with disregard for all rules, and with sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.”
////////////////////////////// spirit of finding a “middle way” à la Siddhartha Gotama, somewhere between a self being all there is and there being no self at all, I think Nietzsche’s conception of the self is an adequate model
//////////////////////////Is the Nietzschean self merely a congeries of desires, drives, and affects that inhere in a given body, or is there something more to it? The correct response, I contend, is that both answers capture an aspect of Nietzsche’s full position. He thinks of the self as minimally the collection of desires, affects, and drives inherent in a given body, but he reserves a special, honorific status for selves that exhibit wholeheartedness.
///////////////////////////////Researchers have electronically linked the brains of pairs of rats for the first time, enabling them to communicate directly to solve simple behavioral puzzles (credit: Duke University)
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dieting makes you feel guilty about food but doesn't make you thinner
/////////////////////////////In many countries, women are dying during childbirth -- not because they lack proper health care, but because the delivery room is too dark
////////////////////////// fragile X syndrome, turns some brain cells into chatterboxes, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report. The extra talk may make it harder for brain cells to identify and attend to important signals
/////////////////////// base rate was cut to its record low level of 0.5 per cent in March 2009 the cost of borrowing on mortgages and personal loans has fallen dramatically, while savings rates have shriveled horribly.
/////////////////////////A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
///////////////////A group of porcupines is called a prickle.
/////////////////THE KINDNESS OF BEASTS
//////////////If you spell out numbers in order, the first time you get to the letter “a” is at one-thousand.
/////////////// “Thought Process” (Vidhee-Jitta) described in Buddhism over 2,500 years ago. With the initial step of “Pure Perception” (Sanna), followed by “Biased Perception” (Sanna-Cetana), as 2 sequential steps, which can be interrupted by Mindful-Awareness. It has been called “I-tag” in modern science (Brain Lancaster, Liverpool Polytechnic), or what Prof. Antonio Damasio, Head, the Brain and Creativity Institute, USC, described as, “In parallel with generating mental patterns for an object, the brain also generates a sense of ‘self’ in the act of knowing.”
//////////////SOUTH GEORGIA ANTARCTICA
//////////////////Nature reports that a viral predator of the cholera bacteria has stolen the functional immune system of bacteria and is using it against its bacterial host. The study provides the first evidence that this type of virus, the bacteriophage ("phage" for short), can acquire a wholly functional and adaptive immune system.
////////////////////////SWING TO THE RT= BOLT THE DOOR
/////////////////////////////MUFFLED NOT CRISP
//////////////////////WEIRD=XSTRN, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic
/////////////////////////The way a book smells when you thumb through it. The way quiet winter air makes you feel like no one else exists. The smell of the woods after a thunderstorm. That split second before your chair tips back. The feeling right before you cry. The euphoria before the heartbreak. That moment when you wonder if they think of you the way you think of them. These things, I live for.
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///////////////////////////EPICUREAN PARADOX=
If God is willing to prevent evil, but is not able to
Then He is not omnipotent.
If He is able, but not willing
Then He is malevolent.
If He is both able and willing
Then whence cometh evil?
If He is neither able nor willing
Then why call Him God?
/////////////////////////////////////////////In forensic science, Locard's principle holds that the perpetrator of a crime will bring something into the crime scene and leave with something from it, and that both can be used as forensic evidence.
///////////////////////////////CAC predicted stroke in both men and women independently of the presence of atrial fibrillation or Framingham risk factors. It was more predictive in persons younger than 65 years and in those at relatively low cardiovascular risk
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/////////////////////////////FOOTBALL COACH= He is well paid in a trade where interimness is a permanent condition
////////////////////////////SN CNMA IDA 2011=old "I lost my memory and horrible things happened" scenario
//////////////////////ALL IN THE END GAS, DUST AND ROCKS
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