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the Five Depot Organs—the Spleen, Heart, Kidney, Lung, and Liver. The Spleen warehouses energy from food; the Heart is the captain of Blood; the Liver stores Blood; and the Lung regulates qi through breath. “Most important for women is the
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“Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?”
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”
― Native Son
― Native Son
“Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.”
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.”
― White Noise
― White Noise
“The nonbelievers need the believers. They are desperate to have someone believe." "As belief shrinks from the world, people find it more necessary than ever that someone believe... Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they know belief must not fade completely. Hell is when no one believes.”
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