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"Some persons in Europe carry their notions about cruelty to animals so far as not to allow themselves to eat animal food. Many very intelligent men have, at different times of their lives, abstained wholly from flesh; and this too with very considerable advantage to their health. … The most attentive research which I have been able to make into the health of all these persons induces me to believe that vegetable food is the natural diet of man; I tried it once with very considerable advantage: my strength became greater, my intellect clearer, my power of continued exertion protracted, and my spirits much higher than they were when I lived on a mixed diet. I am inclined to think that the inconvenience which some persons experience from vegetable food is only temporary; a few repeated trials would soon render it not only safe but agreeable, and a disgust to the taste of flesh, under any disguise, would be the result of the experiment. The Carmelites and other religious orders, who subsist only on the productions of the vegetable world, live to a greater age than those who feed on meat, and in general herbivorous persons are milder in their dispositions than other people. The same quantity of ground has been proved to be capable of sustaining a larger and stronger population on a vegetable than on a meat diet; and experience has shewn that the juices of the body are more pure and the viscera much more free from disease in those who live in this simple way. All these facts, taken collectively, point to a period, in the progress of civilization, when men will cease to slay their fellow mortals in the animal world for food, and will tend thereby to realize the fictions of antiquity and the Sybilline oracles respecting the millennium or golden age."

"What you focus on, you create more of, and if you keep expecting people to annoy you they will not let you down. Focus on their finer points and encourage their good behaviour if you want to create more of it."

"So there is no single European people. There is no single all-embracing community of culture and tradition among, say, Warsaw, Amsterdam, Berlin and Belgrade. In fact, there are at least four communities: the Northern Protestant, the Latin Catholic, the Greek Orthodox, and the Muslim Ottoman. There is no single language - there are more than twenty. (...) There are no real European political parties (...). And most significantly of all: unlike the United States, Europe still does not have a common story."

"Boyle entertains the hypothesis of a universal matter, the concept of atoms of different shapes and sizes, and the possibility of existence of substances that might properly be called elements... The atomic theory as originally conceived by Democritus and Epicurus, developed by Lucretius, and resurrected by Gassendi from about 1647 on, was doubtless the source from which Boyle derived his ideas, ...as he cites both Epicurus and Gassendi. Boyle, however... avoids any dogmatic assertion of these hypotheses. It is plain, however, that these atoms or "corpuscles" as he calls them are a constant element of his thought."

"Holding on to resentment is like taking poison and waiting for your enemies to die."

"Everything you do along your journey contributes to where you're going."

"When we trust that we live in an abundant universe and allow ourselves to give freely, we raise our frequency, strengthen our faith, and feel awesome thereby putting ourselves in flow and the position to receive abundant amounts in return. When we're in fear, we hold on to what we've got because we don't trust that there's more. We pinch off the energy, we're scared to share, and we focus on, and create more of, the very thing we're hoping to avoid, which is lack."

"There's no faster way to fall prey of outside input then when you're feeling insecure. And there's no better way to feel insecure than knowing you half-assed something or don't really believe in what you're doing."

"Every single person is born with unique and valuable gifts to share with the world."

"If you want to attract good things and feelings into your life, send awesomeness out to everyone around you."

"# Always do your best"

"# Trust your intuition"

"# Find a temporary role model"

"It's important to look for ways to be grateful for all that you've manifested, even things that you might label under "No, thanks.""

"The trick is to not only deny the criticism any power over you, but, even more challenging, to not get caught up in the praise."

"Because if you base your self-worth on what everyone else thinks of you, you hand all your power over to other people and become dependent on a source outside of yourself for validation."

"So how can you truly not care what other people think and be your most powerful Self?"

"When is the last time when you physically hurt yourself? What did you do to get the pain to stop? And how long did you wait to do something about it? When we're in physical pain, we're usually extremely proactive about figuring out how to make it go away immediately because, you know, it hurts. Even if we have to go through more pain from pouring a disinfectant that stings on an open wound or suffering through getting stitches, we do it, right away, because we're very focused on our ultimate goal: relief. When it comes to our emotional pain, however, we're apparently way more game for seeing how much torture we can endure, wallowing in our guilt, shame, resentment, and self-loathing, sometimes for entire lifetimes."

"# Ask yourself why"

"# Don't compare yourself to others"

"# Forgive yourself (Listen up! This one's extremely important.)"

"# Ditch the self-deprecating humor"

"# Let the love in"

"# Love yourself"

"# Drown yourself in affirmations"

"# Do things you love"

"# Find a replacement"

"Do not spend your life clinging to the insulting decisions you've made about yourself. Instead, make the conscious choice to replace them with new and improved ones."

"If you want to live a life you've never lived, you have to do things you've never done."

"Professional identity cannot cancel out or displace the primordial moral agency that we all share simply by virtue of being human."

"It's just as easy to believe we're awesome as it is to believe we're giant sucking things. Takes the same amount of energy. The same amount of focus."

"In the interest of perpetuating such radical, reality-altering self-love, here are some of the best ways to win yourself over again:"

"as Tech Analyst"

"Comparison is the fastest way to take all the fun out of life."

"# Appreciate how special you are"

"Britt Baron as Josie Garrett, daughter of Jack and Karen Garrett"

"Kelly Frye as Kristy Simmons, wife of Matt Simmons"

"You are responsible for what you say and do. You are not responsible for whether or not people freak out about it."

"as Special Agent Matthew "Matt" Simmons"

"as Technical Analyst Russ "Monty" Montgomery"

"as Unit Chief SSA Jack Garrett"

"as Special Agent Clara Seger"

"as Medical Examiner / Special Agent Mae Jarvis"

"Physiologists have usually represented that our species holds a middle rank, in the masticatory and digestive apparatus, between the flesh-eating and the herbivorous animals; — a statement which seems rather to have been deduced from what we have learned by experience on this subject, than to result fairly from an actual comparison of man and animals. … The teeth of man have not the slightest resemblance to those of the carnivorous animals, except that their enamel is confined to the external surface. He possesses, indeed, teeth called canine, but they do not exceed the level of the others, and are obviously unsuited to the purposes which the corresponding teeth execute in carnivorous animals. … Thus we find that, whether we consider the teeth and jaws, or the immediate instruments of digestion, the human structure closely resembles that of the simiæ; all of which, in their natural state, are completely herbivorous."

"Comparative anatomy, therefore, proves that man is naturally a frugivorous animal, formed to subsist upon fruits, seeds, and farinaceous vegetables."

"as Karen Garrett, wife of Jack Garrett"

"Helena Roerich"

"The Reappearance of the Christ, by Alice A Bailey"

"Djwhal Khul"

"Masters of Wisdom"