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"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health."

"It is proven that the glass in your environment may be able to affect your health."

"Radio Wave Sickness and Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity are easily preventable and one can only wonder how much longer the insanity of modern governments is going to be allowed to continue in this area."

"AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call 'The Presumption of Sickness,' i.e., the principle that whomever we are about to sleep with is HIV-positive until proven HIV-negative."

"Being HIV positive doesn't necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative."

"The Mauna Kea night shift was an 18 hour night in wintertime at the 13,796 feet summit (before sunset to after sunrise) with insufficient time for adequate sleep before the next night shift. Night shift was between 5 and 8 nights long and we slept at 9,200 feet. We sat at a desk staring at four large computer monitors and a large cathode ray tube television. I would also use my Wi-Fi laptop computer. I would have extreme fatigue by the end of every night shift and have chapped lips which I now associate with exposure to the artificial light from the computer screens. A good day of sleep between shifts was rare and starting the next shift fatigued was normal."

"To understand how to be healthy, a person must first comprehend sickness, disease and death."
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"Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony."


"Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process."


"Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect."


"We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us."


"Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere."


"This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking."


"We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian."


"It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it."
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