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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

by Matthew Walker

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Mar 31, 2024 07:21PM

“... it made me realize how crazy random it was not just that I was me (the billion sperm to one egg; the insane odds against all of my ancestors ever meeting each other), but also how, with the millions of electrical pulses in the brain that were needed to fire every microsecond, it was incredibly random that I continued to be me.”
― David Stuart MacLean, The Answer to the Riddle is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia

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“It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.”
― Molière

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“We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human rights. We are hated because our government denies these things to people in Third World countries whose resources are coveted by our multinational corporations. That hatred we have sown has come back to haunt us in the form of terrorism.”
― Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present

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“Boredom is only for people who do not know themselves or the wonders of life.”
― Tom Brown Jr., The Vision: The Dramatic True Story of One Man's Search for Enlightenment

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“(1) When a situation has become too frustrating, a quandary too persistently insolvable; when dealing with the issue is generating chronic discontent, infringing on freedom, and inhibiting growth, it may be time to quit beating one’s head against the wall, reach for a big fat stick of metaphoric dynamite, light the fuse, and blast the whole unhappy business nine miles past oblivion. (2) After making an extreme effort, after pulling out all the stops, one is still unable to score Tibetan peach pie, take it as a signal to relax, grin, pick up a fork, and go for a slice of the apple.”
― Tom Robbins, Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life

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