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“We must pass through acute loneliness to learn that we are not alone.”
― Sandra Lee Dennis, Love and the Mystery of Betrayal

“Things To Avoid Hops and beer. The potent estrogen, estradiol, found in large quantities in hops, plays a powerful role in increasing prostate size and is strongly implicated in both BPH and prostate cancer. Hopped beer should be avoided at all cost. Some studies have found that beer consumption is directly related to prostate inflammation. Other estrogenic plants such as licorice and black cohosh should be avoided as well.”
― Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Natural Testosterone Plan: For Sexual Health and Energy

“People find different ways of keeping the ones they loved among the living, he said cautiously. Children. Memories. The names of things.”
― James Meek, The Heart Broke In

“if we consider the total growth of the US economy in the thirty years prior to the crisis, that is, from 1977 to 2007, we find that the richest 10 percent appropriated three-quarters of the growth. The richest 1 percent alone absorbed nearly 60 percent of the total increase of US national income in this period. Hence for the bottom 90 percent, the rate of income growth was less than 0.5 percent per year.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century