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“The enforcement of the compulsory smallpox vaccination law in 1867, when the death rate was already falling, was accompanied by an increase in the deaths from 100 to 400 deaths per million.”
― Dissolving Illusions
― Dissolving Illusions
“The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
“Unconditional Love does not mean being a doormat for other people - unconditional Love begins with Loving ourselves enough to protect ourselves from the people we Love if that is necessary.”
― Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls
― Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls
“It is necessary to take down the dysfunctional defense systems but we have to replace them with defenses that work.”
― Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls
― Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls
“We can’t even be sure how to tell when the immune system’s not working right, let alone why not, because we don’t have good metrics of what a healthy human immune system looks like. Despite billions spent on immune stimulants in supermarkets and drugstores last year, we don’t know what—if anything—those really do, or what “immune stimulant” even means.{564}”
― Dissolving Illusions
― Dissolving Illusions
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