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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b01d178 | The only reason why any of you's still around | Sabine C. Bauer | ||
| 4d05198 | Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it. --Maya Angelou | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| 8ecda27 | true--eating the right foods, the ones we've | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| 9ff7ced | Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you." --Dale Carnegie" | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| e899b75 | Isn't it amazing how easily you can cheat yourself out of the right choices by convincing yourself that you "deserve" the wrong ones? It's highly illogical when you think about it. You deserve a better life, you deserve better health, and you deserve to lose weight." | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| 193b6e1 | Life experiences, mental illness, drugs, greed, environment, and poor role-modeling can all forge damaged people and can generate a darkness, an exploitiveness, in the way they approach life. Whatever their genesis, there are people in your life (and mine) who will hurt you if you let them. | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| a97ae7b | My Commitment Contract I, ______________________________ (your name), commit to follow the steps and timeline I have laid out in order to achieve my realistic weight loss goals. Just as in life, this diet is not going to be a success-only journey. Therefore, if I deviate along the way, I promise not to beat myself up or use it as an excuse to fail. Instead, I will get right back on track. I promise not to make excuses or to sabotage myself .. | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| a81e449 | I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer them keeping in mind that you are writing your children's future with your answers. | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| 718d421 | Foods with Potential Thermogenic Properties Coconut oil Olive oil Green tea Walnuts Mustard (yellow or Dijon) Foods That Stick to Your Ribs Almonds Raisins Apples Yogurt (nonfat) Chickpeas Eggs Dried plums (prunes) Cod Greens (any kind of leafy greens) Rye Lentils Tofu Peanut butter (natural) Whey protein Pistachios (roasted, unsalted, in the shell) | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| ced2d3d | Hungry people are eventually going to eat, and eat with a vengeance! | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| 5e5d638 | Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train. | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| 2c3ef4f | We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| a2e2059 | They just won't listen," and" -- | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| ba6e55f | In the meantime, let's agree that what makes a problem big is simply that it's yours. | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| 4ba5b7d | HUMMUS AND CRUNCHY CARROTS In a blender or food processor, puree 1/2 cup chickpeas, 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil, 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic, and 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Serve hummus with 1 cup raw baby carrots and 2 rye crisps. | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| 18b0df4 | You must learn that you do not have to be angry just because you have the right to be. | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| f231739 | How often, for example, have you said or heard someone else say, "All I really want in this life is to be happy"? It sounds like a commonsense answer, but as a life goal, it is destined for failure. My dog, Barkley, wants to be happy. Does that mean that the two of you want the same things? I don't think so. I'll bet everything I own that you and Barkley define happiness very differently. So unless you're willing to settle for someone scrat.. | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| 0406659 | Here they are: Power Proteins Super Starches Chicken breast Oats Tuna (chunk light, canned in water) Brown rice Black beans Corn Prime Produce--Veggies Fit Fats Carrots Avocado Tomatoes Sunflower seeds Mushrooms Cashews Prime Produce-Fruits Blueberries Oranges Grapes | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| e1062dd | Now ask yourself if you're really going to spend the rest of your life on one of those ridiculous diets. The honest answer is, no, you won't. So, that means you might lose weight while you're on it, but you'll probably gain it back when you're off it because you haven't made any real lifestyle changes. | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| e179fad | Both men are dead now, but their disciples have continued the hostilities. Indeed, the dispute between Wizards and Prophets has, if anything, become more vehement. Wizards view the Prophets' emphasis on cutting back as intellectually dishonest, indifferent to the poor, even racist | Charles C. Mann | ||
| e56db0d | Prophets sneer that the Wizards' faith in human resourcefulness is unthinking, scientifically ignorant, even driven by greed (because remaining within ecological limits will cut into corporate profits). | Charles C. Mann | ||
| b97ecda | To a biologist like Margulis, who spent her career arguing that humans are simply part of evolution's handiwork, the answer should be clear. All life is similar at base, she and others say. All species seek to make more of themselves--that is their goal. By multiplying until we reach our maximum possible numbers, we are following the laws of biology, even as we take out much of the planet. Eventually, in accordance with those same laws, the.. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| a9c0adf | The alliance Massasoit negotiated with Plymouth was successful from the Wampanoag perspective, for it helped to hold off the Narragansett. But it was a disaster from the point of view of New England Indian society as a whole, for the alliance ensured the survival of Plymouth colony, which spearheaded the great wave of British immigration to Nee England. All of this was absent not only from my high school textbooks, but from the academic acc.. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 1b04e9c | According to Peter Stahl, an anthropologist at the State University of New York in Binghamton, "lots" of researchers believe that "what the eco-imagery would like to picture as a pristine, untouched Urwelt [primeval world] in fact has been managed by people for millennia." | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 62309a2 | The chronological list of rulers differs on different lists, some lists do not include known kings, and some include kings who probably were mythological--as if a tally of English rulers matter-of-factly included King Arthur and his father, Uther Pendragon. The | Charles C. Mann | ||
| b103ca8 | By mining the forests upstream for firewood and floating the logs downriver to the city, they were removing ground cover and increasing the likelihood of catastrophic floods. When these came, as they later did, kings who gained their legitimacy from their claims to control the weather would face angry questioning from their subjects. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| ce51cff | Having grown separately for millennia, the [orginal] Americans were a boundless sea of novel ideas, drea,s, stories, philosophies, religions, ,oralities, discoveries, and all other products of the mind....Here and there we see clues of what might have been. Pacific Northwest Indian artists carved beautiful masks, boxes, bas-relief S, and totem poles within the dictates of an elaborate aesthetic syste, based on an ovoid shapes that has no n.. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 9cf83dd | By the eve of the American Revolution, a third of the native people in Rhode Island were enslaved. Indian bondage was more common still in the southern colonies. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 81b6344 | mounting a sustained war. Unhappily, these intriguing speculations | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 6d3c7ae | Beavers the size of armchairs; turtles that weighed almost as much as cars; sloths able to reach tree branches twenty feet high; huge, flightless, predatory birds like rapacious ostriches--the tally of Pleistocene monsters is long and alluring. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 2920d73 | Inside the settlement was a world of warmth, family, and familiar custom. But the world outside, as Thomas put it, was "a maze of confusing actions and individuals fighting to maintain an existence in the shadow of change." And that was before the Europeans showed up." | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 60bf2f9 | In Deloria's opinion, archaeology is mainly about easing white guilt. Determining that Indians superseded other people fits neatly into this plan. "If we're only thieves who stole our land from someone else," Deloria said, "then they can say, 'Well, we're just the same. We're all immigrants here, aren't we?" | Charles C. Mann | ||
| b08879a | The Olmec were but the first of many societies that arose in Mesoamerica in this epoch. Most had religions that focused on human sacrifice, dark by contemporary standards, but their economic and scientific accomplishments were bright. They invented a dozen different systems of writing, established widespread trade networks, tracked the orbits of the planets, created a 365-day calendar (more accurate than its contemporaries in Europe), and r.. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 6f392b0 | Valencia's plan was conversion by proxy: he and the rest of the twelve would open the eyes of the Indian priesthood to the beauties of the true faith, gaining their adherence by reasoned theological discussion, and then the priests would fan out and spread the Gospel in their native tongue. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| faf9547 | Planting their orchards for millennia, the first Amazonians slowly transformed large swaths of the river basin into something more pleasing to human beings. In the country inhabited by the Ka'apor, on the mainland southeast of Marajo, centuries of tinkering have profoundly changed the forest community. In Ka'apor-managed forests, according to Balee's plant inventories, almost half of the ecologically important species are those used by huma.. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 574b722 | That was why archaeologists and anthropologists had come across the ruins of complex societies throughout Mesoamerica and the Andes, but saw only hunter-gatherers and slash-and-burners in Amazonia. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 6f6da7f | he argued, was not perfectly round but "in the shape of a pear," | Charles C. Mann | ||
| d3cc54a | What happened in 1518 and 1519 is not. In those years, according to Bartolome de Las Casas, a missionary priest who lived through the incident, Spanish orange, pomegranate, and cassia plantations were destroyed "from the root up." Thousands of acres of orchards were "all scorched and dried out, as though flames had fallen from the sky and burned them." The actual culprit, Wilson argued, was the sap-sucking scale insects. But what the Spania.. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 3f0bf0b | The viruses that cause smallpox, influenza, hepatitis, measles, encephalitis, and viral pneumonia; the bacteria that cause tuberculosis, diphtheria, cholera, typhus, scarlet fever, and bacterial meningitis--by a quirk of evolutionary history, all were unknown in the Western Hemisphere. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 5b8ad45 | of venereal soldiers along the way. A more effective | Charles C. Mann | ||
| f88fb1f | By the eve of the American Revolution, a third of the native people in Rhode Island were enslaved. Indian bondage was more common still in the southern | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 388b41b | Holmberg's Mistake. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| e8c8428 | Like most Maya rulers, Chak Tok Ich'aak spent a lot of his time luxuriating in his court while dwarf servants attended to his whims and musicians played conch shells and wooden trumpets in the background. But | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 710bf41 | Inka satrapies; | Charles C. Mann |