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27 Yellow highlight | Page: 4 T’ai Chi, creating balance is both the means and the goal. The same is true for ChiWalking. For instance, you can create energetic balance in your life (the goal) by creating balance in your body with an aligned spine, a balanced walking form, and a great program (the means). Yellow highlight...

34 Yellow highlight | Location: 195 “You don’t charge for them or anything?” A long look. “Communist party, remember?” “Yeah, but, how do you eat and stuff?” She shrugged. “Here and there. This and that. Kindness of strangers.” Yellow highlight | Location: 365 Seth said, “It’s the ultimate self-deception. Like they’re going to be able to change anything...

8 Yellow highlight | Location: 64 For my parents: Roz and Gord Doctorow, who taught me why we fight, and not to give up. This isn’t the kind of fight we win, it’s the kind of fight we fight. Yellow highlight | Location: 81 Socials Yellow highlight | Location: 140 randos Yellow highlight | Location: 516 “You see, if someone wants to...

14 hihglights Yellow highlight | Page: 20 The universe makes certain decisions and on the basis of those decisions some people live and some people die. This is a harsh law. Yellow highlight | Page: 26 ‘If God can do anything can he create a ditch so wide he can’t jump over it?’ Yellow highlight | Page: 36 His cynical...

14 Yellow highlight | Location: 19 To all who taste the cynic’s bitter draft, and instead choose hope. Yellow highlight | Location: 325 “It looks like this is your first time visiting us,” she said. “Go on in, but have a care. Some people find it”—she waggled her head to convey equivocation—“disorienting.” Yellow highlight | Location: 469 When facts won’t...

6 Yellow highlight | Page: 49 fleur-de-lis. Yellow highlight | Page: 71 I really have had little to do with them, for I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one. Upon Yellow highlight | Page: 72 She and I could live most pleasantly in some moldy shack in the...

2 Yellow highlight | Page: 180 Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee. Yellow highlight | Page: 450 He picked up a chunk of sharp rock and hammered

25 Yellow highlight | Location: 130 Huxley was fascinated by the fact that ‘the same person is simultaneously a mass of atoms, a physiology, a mind, an object with a shape that can be painted, a cog in the economic machine, a voter, a lover etc’, and one of his key aims in Point Counter Point...

30 Yellow highlight | Location: 149 Also avoid the bathroom scale—weight is deceptive, and not a measure of body fat. Instead, waist size is a better way for most people to monitor body fat—as fat-burning progresses, we get leaner with a smaller waist. Yellow highlight | Location: 176 In our study, we defined the condition of overfat as...

51 Yellow highlight | Page: 13 own body fat for fuel instead of relying on bursts of sugar, the way nearly all of us do today. Yellow highlight | Page: 13 Mark Allen, the greatest triathlete in history, made his breakthrough when he discovered a way to burn body fat in place of carbs. Yellow highlight | Page: 28 They...

33 Yellow highlight | Location: 168 Even though Silicon Valley types have a sanitized name for this phase, “engagement,” we fear it enough to keep our own children away from it. Many of the Silicon Valley kids I know attend Waldorf schools, which generally forbid electronics. Yellow highlight | Location: 251 The prime directive to be engaging reinforces...

83 Yellow highlight | Location: 154 (Answer: If 1 percent of the population controls most of the disposable wealth, what we call “the market” reflects what they think is useful or important, not anybody else.) Yellow highlight | Location: 177 If someone had designed a work regime perfectly suited to maintaining the power of finance capital, it’s hard...

22 Yellow highlight | Page: 3 Kaizen has two definitions: using very small steps to improve a habit, a process, or product using very small moments to inspire new products and inventions Yellow highlight | Page: 62 If health were my first priority, what would I be doing differently today? What is one way I can remind myself...

7 Yellow highlight | Location: 50 So light a candle, love the light, and face the darkness when the candle fails. Patrick Hemingway Yellow highlight | Location: 68 Green Hills of Africa belongs to a tradition of African hunting safari writing, along with such works as Frederick Selous’s A Hunter’s Wanderings in Africa (1881) and Theodore Roosevelt’s African...

8 Yellow highlight | Page: 7 The dreamed-of city contained him as a young man; he arrives at Isidora in his old age. In the square there is the wall where the old men sit and watch the young go by; he is seated in a row with them. Desires are already memories. Yellow highlight | Page:...

56 Yellow highlight | Location: 265 Shared lucid dreaming. A way out of the dull persistence of physicality. Yellow highlight | Location: 468 Jewish admonition to “choose life” in a children’s book about Jewish culture. There was a logic to it, since death would come soon enough, no matter what, so choosing life was at least a reasonable...

8 Yellow highlight | Location: 521 "It's not a question of appendix or kidney, but of life and...death. Yes, life was there and now it is going, going and I cannot stop it. Yes. Why deceive myself? Isn't it obvious to everyone but me that I'm dying, and that it's only a question of weeks, days...it...

93 Yellow highlight | Location: 85 “Everyday life is like an inexpressibly fascinating new movie, which can’t be guessed at ahead of time. In it I find myself dancing, crying, laughing, shouting, singing, suffering, enjoying. And from the inner core, all this fans the flames of hope still larger. My hope is neither the result of...

65 Yellow highlight | Location: 68 understanding is unimportant compared with doing. Yellow highlight | Location: 128 The goal is not to ignore or suppress feelings, but to accept them as they happen to be at the moment . . .  and then to get on with doing what is sensible and mature anyway. Yellow highlight | Location: 135 The mature human...

4 Yellow highlight | Page: 316 Workers who had any resources became data commuters and lived outside the cities. Of course, some of the people here were data-set users too and so could be characterized as data commuters. Yellow highlight | Page: 343 Because the highest levels of our minds are goal-directed problem solvers. Yellow highlight | Page: 348 The...

13 Yellow highlight | Page: 20 The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. Yellow highlight | Page: 22 When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling — meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves. Addiction becomes a surrogate for our calling. We enact...

1 Yellow highlight | Location: 104 particular branch of that question: what is a fake? And, if you can make a fake seem authentic enough, does it matter?

11 Orange highlight | Location: 116 Resistance will unfailingly point to true North—meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing. Orange highlight | Location: 275 Here’s a trick that screenwriters use: work backwards. Begin at the finish. Orange highlight | Location: 280 Answer the Question “What Is This About?” Orange highlight | Location: 322 Stay primitive. Trust...

18 Yellow highlight | Location: 752 Die Menschen bringen sich immer gegenseitig um Eheleute bringen sich immer um es fragt sich nur wer zuerst vernichtet wird wer sich zuerst zerstören und vernichten läßt darauf ist die Ehe aufgebaut Orange highlight | Location: 921 Du weißt doch selbst wie die Situation ist es ist doch alles viel schlimmer als...

10 Orange highlight | Location: 86 Die Kunst, gegen die Tatsachen zu existieren, sagt Oehler, ist die Kunst, die die schwierigste ist. Orange highlight | Location: 105 Verstandhaben hieße doch nichts anderes, als mit der Geschichte und in erster Linie mit der eigenen persönlichen Geschichte schlußmachen. Von einem Augenblick auf den andern überhaupt nichts mehr akzeptieren, heißt Verstand...

1 Yellow highlight | Location: 560 Noch 1938, gleich nach dem Einmarsch der Deutschen, waren die Sozialistischen Wehrturner geschlossen der SA beigetreten.

15 Orange highlight | Location: 475 viele Nächte lang davon geträumt. Auf der Promenade in Steyr hat sie mir eine Stelle gezeigt, wo in ihrer Anwesenheit und in Anwesenheit etlicher anderer Steyrer ein KZ-Häftling von einem SS-Aufseher erschossen wurde. Yellow highlight | Location: 763 »Ich erhoffe nichts, ich fürchte nichts, ich bin frei.« Yellow highlight | Location: 1,268 Oft hatte...