We got fatter. Between 1980 and today, the US obesity rate more than doubled.
“You do realize that your brain is literally hardwired to generate error signals when it sees other human-shaped objects stating a different opinion from yourself.”
― Three Worlds Collide
― Three Worlds Collide
“It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place.”
― Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
― Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
“If there's an opposite of a honeymoon, it's the week after a couple's first child is born.”
― Saga, Volume 1
― Saga, Volume 1
“Excuses make today easy, but they make tomorrow hard.
Discipline makes today hard, but it makes tomorrow easy.”
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Discipline makes today hard, but it makes tomorrow easy.”
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“Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium. — HENRI MATISSE”
― Matisse on Art
― Matisse on Art
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