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Adela, Vice-Secretary of God knows what, tucked a blonde strand behind her ear with an audible crunch. ‘Your mother was a refugee, wasn’t she?’ she said, which is a demented way to begin a job interview.
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“Top five tips to support your immune system Eat fermented foods, which contain helpful probiotics. Eat foods rich in a variety of prebiotic fibres, such as leeks, onions, artichokes, cabbages. Eat foods rich in polyphenols, such as colourful blueberries, beetroot, blood oranges, and nuts and seeds. Eat foods that dampen any inflammation after meals such as green leafy vegetables. Reduce consumption of meat and non-fermented dairy to occasional meals.”
― Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well
― Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well
“I always say that religion and politics are just clever ways to make discontent people content with their discontentedness.”
― The Final Winter
― The Final Winter
“What was it like?” she asks me again. It was like being a leaf in a river. I fell in and was carried along.”
― Tom Lake
― Tom Lake
“Life is living. If you’re not living exactly the way you want to live, then what’s the fucking point?”
― Older
― Older
“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.”
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