#mon

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life. ↗

— Dawn French

#beautiful #father #his #i #life

If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people. ↗

— Jacque Fresco

#declare #earth #end #eventually #heritage

Every six months I fly to Dallas to get botox and I also get collagen injections. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#botox #collagen #dallas #every #fly

I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up. ↗

— Glenn Frey

#dress #i #just #maniac #monster

You struggle with your demons and you conquer them. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#demons #struggle #them #you #your

The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team. ↗

— Hayden Fry

#far #handling #his #inherited #intelligent

The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#bipolar #called #commonly #depression #depressive

Typically, one of the arguments against the ethicalness of chemical castration is that it affects the very core of personhood, part of which is sexual drive and sexual fantasizing, by indirectly acting on the CNS (…) But, I think, an equally good argument could be that it interferes with basic homeostatic processes of the organism, regulated by the autonomic PNS and the endocrine system. Maybe the public tends to agree with chemical castration of sexual offenders, especially of pedophiles, not only because of the terrible acts they have committed, but also because there is a hidden prejudice that the “real or genuine person” of such offenders is a mind that has been captured by hormones, and that there is nothing wrong in “killing off these hormones and liberate the person from their vicious influence” (…) I say it is a prejudice because part of what it means to be a mentally healthy and well adapted individual involves a huge influence of the hormonal component, not only testosterone, but all other hormones, and, as a matter of fact, sexual offenders do not have abnormally high levels of free testosterone. ↗

— István Aranyosi

#hormones #neuroethics #pedophilia #pns #sex

However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#bank #below #bound #cannot #central

Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#allocating #among #channeling #corporate #crucial