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she is wasted into a bony form that suggests some species of spider that, instead of building webs, spins misery that sustains her in place of food.
“The future is already here—it is just unevenly distributed.”
― The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
― The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
“Their blows are correlated. The cheng and the ch’i are compared to two interlocked rings: ‘Who can tell where one begins and the other ends?’ Their possible permutations are infinite; the cheng effort may be transformed into a ch’i, a ch’i into a cheng. Thus we may redefine a ch’i attack as one made where a decision is speedily attainable at least cost, in an area characterized by voids or fissures in the enemy’s defences.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
“As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. —Ralph Waldo Emerson The system is the solution. —AT&T”
― The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
― The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
“hypercortisolemia (excess cortisol due to stress) impairs the release of melatonin, the hormone that normally signals to our brains that it is time to go to sleep (and that may also help prevent neuronal loss and cognitive impairment).”
― Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
― Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
“Under Aristotle the “Reader,” whose knowledge of Trojan aretê seems conspicuously absent, forms and substances dominate all. The Good is a relatively minor branch of knowledge called ethics; reason, logic, knowledge are his primary concerns. Aretê is dead and science, logic and the University as we know it today have been given their founding charter: to find and invent an endless proliferation of forms about the substantive elements of the world and call these forms knowledge, and transmit these forms to future generations. As “the system.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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