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We are the only creation or animal on this planet that first destroys its food before it eats it.

--MR. ECKARD REMPE, founder of the The Farm at San Benito

 

 

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

--Attributed to GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856 - 1950), Irish playwright

 

 

You always want to taste something new.

--Neurologist LEONOR CABRAL-LIM, referring to why she

enjoys scouting for good food and places that serve it

 

 

But the fact that a high school student can't do well on the SAT (Student Achievement Test)--is that a disease?

--DR. SCOTT SMALL of Columbia University Medical Center,

reflecting on the ethics of using memory-boosting drugs

 

 

People say they don't want to live to 120 because they think they're going to be frail for 40 years. They don't realize that calorie restriction extends the period of viability and good health.

--Gerontologist ROY WALFORD,

professor emeritus at the University of California, explaining

that if we eat less and better, we live longer, quoted by WebMD

 

 

The superego of a person is soluble in alcohol.

--Psychiatrist ZITA FELICITAS ARTIAGA-SORIANO

of the University of the East-Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center,

on why alcohol-intoxification is associated with loss of inhibition and sense of power

 

 

Now that this global treaty has become international law, it is no longer business as usual for "Big Tobacco."

--AKINBODE OLWAFEMI of Environmental Rights Action in Nigeria

 

 

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