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During the last 150 years, tremendous advances have been made in understanding the pattern of substrate metabolism during exercise. The picture that has emerged is that of muscle as a metabolic omnivore, capable of utilizing carbohydrates,
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“A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.”
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“the real "work" of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.
To gently push aside and silence the many voices that question my goodness and to trust that I will hear the voice of blessing-- that demands real effort. ”
― Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
To gently push aside and silence the many voices that question my goodness and to trust that I will hear the voice of blessing-- that demands real effort. ”
― Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
“Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other….
Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.
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― I and Thou
Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.
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― I and Thou
“The misery of having no time to read a thousand glorious books.”
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“The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.”
― Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
― Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Martina’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Martina’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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85 friends
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503 friends
4,069 books
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63 friends
205 books
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71 friends
3,519 books
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90 friends
6,037 books
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236 books
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16 friends
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