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Pg 110

"I'm breaking my attachment to physical power and possessions," Tyler whispered, "because only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit."

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This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

Pg 122

Since 1980, American farmers have produced an average of 600 more calories per person per day, the price of food has fallen, portion sizes have ballooned, and, predictably, we're eating a whole lot more, at least 300 more calories a day than we consumed in 1985.

Termine con La otra orilla y ahora estoy empezando Bestiario, hasta ahora, Cortazar no me ha decepcionado.

Pg 30

I still felt literature provided the best account of the life of the mind, while neuroscience laid down the most elegant rules of the brain.

Pg 102

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing in here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?

Pg 30

And in fact a general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the God portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy, much less of a universe.

Eukodol is like a combination of junk and cocaine. Trust the Germans to concoct some truly awful shit.
- William Burroughs

Pg 53

In every aspect of the attack, which led to the deaths of of 100,000 Polish soldiers and, by the end of the year, 60,000 Polish civilians, the drug helped the aggressors to work "without any sign of tiredness until the end of the mission."

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The city on the Spree became synonymous with moral reprehensibility. When Germany currency collapsed -- in autumn of 1923 one U.S. dollar was worth 4.2 billion marks -- all moral values seemed t o plummet with it as well.

Pg 141

Television does not ban books, it simply displaces them.