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Book cover for The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
Brains just do what hundreds of millions of years of evolution have determined to be useful, and that includes identifying things that taste good or feel good to us. The brain distinguishes those things from everything else—the background ...more
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Alice Walker
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
Alice Walker

C.S. Lewis
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
C.S. Lewis

Confucius
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
Confucious

Aldous Huxley
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

Sylvia Plath
“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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