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When conventional medicine fails, when we must confront pain and death, of course we are open to other prospects for hope. And, after all, some illnesses are psychogenic. Many can be at least ameliorated by a positive cast of mind. Placebos are dummy drugs, often sugar pills. Drug companies routinely compare the effectiveness of their drugs against placebos given to patients with the same disease who had no way to tell the difference between the drug and the placebo. Placebos can be astonishingly effective, especially for colds, anxiety, depression, pain, and symptoms that are plausibly generated by the mind. Conceivably, endorphins -the small brain proteins with morphine-like effects - can be elicited by belief. A placebo works only if the patient believes it’s an effective medicine. Within strict limits, hope, it seems, can be transformed into biochemistry. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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He who coordinates his thoughts with his actions controls his own destiny.” ~ Amunhotep El Bey ↗

— Amunhotep El Bey

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In my book an erection constitutes personal growth. ↗

— Amunhotep El Bey

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I love with love, so that we all may love." ~ Amunhotep El Bey ↗

— Amunhotep El Bey

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... Who knows what death, anxiety of the living, Who knows what loneliness, end of the loving I could say to myself of the love (I had): Let it not be immortal, since it is flame But let it be infinite while it lasts. ↗

— Vinicius de Moraes

#living #loving #death

The trigger has been squeezed, the deathly mechanism has been enabled, the fatal course of a bullet has been set. No amount of bleating or praying or wailing of cajoling can halt it or stall it or call it back. ↗

— Nicola Barker

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I spit upon your God! ↗

— William Golding

#pincher-martin #death

Some things in life are certain; death, taxes, and that your family will piss you off. ↗

— Melanie Finn

#funny #life #death

I know how precious life is. You had no right to take Renaud's and you have no right to take your own now. Not over this. Too much death. It needs to stop. ↗

— Louise Penny

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Birthday calls death close. ↗

— Abhinandan Kumar

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