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Anaphylaxis, Richet observed, is one of three outcomes of vaccination.
“Though the conference I’d received a grant to attend was still a few months off, it was already starting to bug me. The plane could crash. I could be raped and murdered. I could get stress cancer from excessive dread beforehand. To put it succinctly, my life could be torn asunder. All in the attempt to score a few idiotic career advancement points with my department chair and a colleague who hardly knew what my name was and certainly had no idea what my research interests were.”
― The Marvelous Misadventures of Ingrid Winter
― The Marvelous Misadventures of Ingrid Winter
“People want to feel good. They want to be happy. Scientific studies have shown that when a person smiles or laughs, his endorphins are raised, which makes him feel good. If you are the person who makes him feel that way, he will start to like you and become more likely to do business with you.”
― Your Presentation is a Joke: Using Humor to Maximize Your Impact
― Your Presentation is a Joke: Using Humor to Maximize Your Impact
“spider ever existed. Later I would think about that spider, wondering what its message to us might have been and how it might have made a difference if we had all paid attention.”
― The Things We Wish Were True
― The Things We Wish Were True
“I can do the one hundred things beyond the next thing, but I stub my toe on that,”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“And what about the other half of the election truism—that the amount of money spent on campaign finance is obscenely huge? In a typical election period that includes campaigns for the presidency, the Senate, and the House of Representatives, about $ 1 billion is spent per year—which sounds like a lot of money, unless you care to measure it against something seemingly less important than democratic elections. It is the same amount, for instance, that Americans spend every year on chewing gum.”
― Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
― Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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