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| 0f56034 | Inadvertently, I had stumbled across what has been called the Harvard law of animal behavior, which is related to Murphy's law: "You can have the most beautifully designed experiment with the most carefully controlled variables, and the animal will do what it damn well pleases." | animal-behavior harvard-law murphy-s-law | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| eb636a9 | NK, or natural killer, cells, which, like macrophages, attack targets like microbes, do not always kill. A 2013 article reports that about half of the NK cells sit out the fight, leaving a minority of them to become what their human observers call serial killers. | fight natural-killer serial-killer | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| 1910dea | It's not only "my work"--forgive the pompous phrase--that I bequeath to my survivors but all the mental and sensual pleasures that come with being a living human: sitting in the spring sunshine, feeling the warmth of friends, solving a difficult equation. All that will go on without me. I am content, in the time that remains, to be a transient cell in the larger human super-being." | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 70d22a4 | En esta cultura del cancer de mama que se ha generalizado todo sirve (no a proposito, seguramente) para quitarle hierro a la enfermedad y para normalizarla: quiza el diagnostico sea desastroso, pero puedes comprarte un pin con un angelito de strass rosa e ir a las carreras. Hasta esos constantes testimonios de historias personales y los trucos practicos que a mi me resultaron tan utiles conllevan una aceptacion implicita, tanto de la enferm.. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 989f764 | mundo del pensamiento positivo, los demas no estan ahi para que los cuidemos, ni para darnos banos de realidad que no les hemos pedido. Solo tienen sentido si nos animan, nos aplauden y nos reafirman. Y aunque esto suena de lo mas despiadado, hay mucha gente normal que adopta esta filosofia a modo de credo, | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| a39509d | Positive thinking did not abolish the need for constant vigilance; it only turned that vigilance inward. Instead of worrying that one's roof might collapse or one's job be terminated, positive thinking encourages us to worry about the negative expectations themselves and subject them to continual revision. It ends up imposing a mental discipline as exacting as that of the Calvinism it replaced--the endless work of self-examination and self-.. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 0b8fd96 | For most people, throughout most of the twentieth century, medical care necessarily involved an encounter with a social superior--a white male from a relatively privileged background. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| d2af47c | The doctor's detachment is not a defense against excessive empathy, but a "downright negative" emotional stance," | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| eb3761b | Everyone, from software writer to accountant, was now subject to the same insecurities as the "lonely salesman" once targeted by Norman Vincent Peale." | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 84cec3b | A mi, al menos, este peso me lo quito de encima la ira continuada que sentia... y que hubiera sido mayor si entonces hubiera sospechado, como ahora, que mi cancer era iatrogenico, es decir, causado por los propios medicos. En la epoca en que me diagnosticaron llevaba casi ocho anos sometiendome a terapia hormonal sustitutiva, recetada por una serie de medicos que me aseguraban que prevenia las enfermedades cardiacas, la demencia y la osteop.. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| e67695b | Women are supposed to undergo a second, gynecologist annual exam, and this one has been well defined since its inception in the 1950s: breast and external genitalia exams, a Pap smear to detect cervical cancer, a vaginal and perhaps rectal exam. These exams are not always voluntarily undertaken; they may be required as a condition of obtaining or renewing a prescription for a contraceptive: Recall the searing scene in Mad Men where Peggy un.. | exam out-of-place-intimacies women | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| cfa3de8 | Segun el plan de los Simonton, la mujer tenia que dedicar parte de la jornada a dibujar batallas entre celulas con forma de insecto, como si fueran un tebeo. Si en estos dibujos las celulas cancerosas no aparecian "muy debiles [y] desorientadas", y las de las defensas no se mostraban "fuertes y agresivas", la paciente estaba tonteando con la muerte y tenia que esforzarse un poco mas.14" | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 1ecb4db | El pensamiento positivo parece obligatorio en este mundo del cancer de pecho, hasta el punto de que si alguien es infeliz tiene casi que disculparse, | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 6f15e90 | Combine mind plus body with freshly updated data, some of it perhaps collected on your self-monitoring devices, and act quickly to generate fresh instructions to forestall any looming problems. This, I imagine, is how Silicon Valley "immortalists" spend their time--scanning all the health-related information and instantly applying it--which may seem a small price to pay for eternal life." | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 5250f4f | T]he natural world is not dead, but swarming with activity, sometimes perhaps even agency and intentionality. Even the place where you might expect to find quiet and solidity, the very heart of matter - the interior of a proton or a neutron - turns out to be animated with the ghostly flickerings of quantum fluctuation. I would not say that the universe is "alive," since that might invite misleading biological analogies. But it is restless, .. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 7f71547 | Our space was a home because we loved each other in it. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| a041323 | We spend so much time scrambling from one thing to the next, getting through it, getting to the end, and starting over again, that I would not forget to fully breathe in the miniscule moments of beauty and peace. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 181e7fb | T]he immune system is a metaphor for the self. Its ostensible job is the defense of the organism, but it is potentially a treacherous defender, like the Praetorian guard that turns its swords against the emperor. Just as the immune system can unleash the inflammations that ultimately kill us, the self can pick at a psychic scar - often some sense of defeat or abandonment - until a detectable illness appears, such as obsessive-compulsive dis.. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| b0bdc6c | N]o matter how much effort we expend, not everything is potentially within our control, not even our own bodies and minds. [...] The body - or, to use more cutting-edge language, the "mindbody" - is not a smooth-running machine in which each part obediently performs its tasks for the benefits of the common good. It is at best a confederation of parts - cells, tissues, even thought patterns - that may seek to advance their own agendas, wheth.. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| c77b596 | Any dictatorship takes a psychological toll on its subjects. If you are treated as an untrustworthy person-a potential slacker, drug addict, or thief-you may begin to feel less trust worthy yourself. If you are constantly reminded of your lowly position in the social hierarchy, whether by individual managers or by a plethora of impersonal rules, you begin to accept that unfortunate status. To draw for a moment from an entirely different cor.. | getting-by journalism labor-quotes living-wage minimum-wage undercover work-ethic work-quotes | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| c54b605 | There's no sense that you're there forever. No parent is there forever. | Anthony Quinn | ||
| cf2e364 | Suppose that preventive care uncovered some condition that would require agonizing treatments or sacrifices on my part - disfiguring surgery, radiation, drastic lifestyle limitations. Maybe these measures would add years to my life, but it would be a painful and depleted life that they prolonged. | wellness | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| 0dc6c61 | Barbara Ehrenreich's book Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America, she dissects the darker history of positive thinking, the cult of optimism that has, in recent decades, she writes, metastasized into "an apology for the crueler aspects of the market economy" | Emily Nussbaum | ||
| 3606c97 | The scientific argument [...] is that the attribution of agency to the natural world was a mistake, although a useful one in an evolutionary sense. [...] [T]o the contrary, [...] it was the notion of nature as a passive, ultimately inert mechanism that was the mistake, and perhaps the biggest one that humans ever made. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| c606680 | A movement that recognizes our biological similarity but denies the diversity of our priorities cannot be a women's health movement, it can only be health movement. | feminism | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| dac7a99 | Thomas Jefferson had once written: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." | Jeff Rovin | ||
| 4392c0e | Cooking is more than an art; it is a gift. Genius, and genius alone, can prepare a feast fit for the feaster. | William H.H. Murray | ||
| 79525f6 | Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistan.. | Taylor Pearson | ||
| a83883e | The sky hung over the frozen world like a dome of gray steel, whose invisibly matched plates were riveted here and there by a few white, gleaming stars. | William H.H. Murray | ||
| ae1ee88 | The surface of the snow sparkled with crystals that flashed colorlessly cold. The air seemed armed, and full of sharp, eager points that pricked the skin painfully. The great tree-trunks cracked their sharp protests against the frosty entrances being made beneath their bark. | William H.H. Murray | ||
| 0adf122 | Action is the foundational key to all success. | Anthony Robbins | ||
| 3f695f1 | The surface of the snow sparkled with crystals that flashed colorlessly cold. The air seemed armed, and full of sharp, eager points that pricked the skin painfully. The great tree-trunks cracked their sharp protests against the frosty entrances being made beneath their bark. The lake, from under the smothering ice, roared in dismay and pain, and sent the thunders of its wrath at its imprisonment around the resounding shores. | William H.H. Murray | ||
| 1273827 | Ash | Matt Christopher | ||
| 80e5906 | Michael Jordan officially returned to the NBA on Sunday, March 19, 1995, | Matt Christopher | ||
| a7888ec | catch nothing but net. | Matt Christopher | ||
| 12b3a24 | Foff, | Matt Christopher | ||
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| 68e3105 | Corky Jones, a boy shorter than Terry, but | Matt Christopher | ||
| 0fc9791 | The Cougars had practiced forming a wall against such penalty kicks. It | Matt Christopher | ||
| 5c4bc74 | After supper both families went to the baseball part to watch the | Matt Christopher | ||
| 6aadca6 | reflection?' 'He would not see his reflection presumably, since the light could never reach the mirror from his face if the mirror is receding from it at the same speed. | Michael Jecks | ||
| c3c3986 | Chapter One Chapter | Michael Jecks | ||
| 59d5705 | alarming | Michael Jecks | ||
| 94516dd | The quality of your life is the quality of your communication. | Anthony Robbins |