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To designate feelings, to verbalize them, was to, necessarily, alter them, with no particular direction or mission. When I was very young, I didn’t trust speech, believing that other, nonword languages would intrude, complicate, or obstruct meaning, body language, facial expressions, timing, inflection, and so I wrote notes, letters. Now I knew that any movement from initial, pure thought was a movement away from precise meaning or representation.

— Dr. No by Percival Everett (Page 63)

(Media deprivation - ) that means no reading and no time spent on the computer. It even means no talk radio. For all of us, there is a panic which sets in. No words? No words! No magazines, no books, no computers, no words. Forbidden, words call to us. We are banning words, and the forbidden words begin to build up a head of steam. We are all addicted to words, and when words are forbidden, we find ourselves restless, irritable, and discontent. We miss our words. We are tempted to cheat, to read just a little. But not reading pays off.

— Write for Life by Julia Cameron

This is a day of inner estrangement and outer conformity, and we must combat both ... those aspects of modern society that threaten an individual's integrity as a free and morally responsible being ... to re-establish a meaningful relationship with a larger context of purposes.

— Self-Renewal by John W. Gardner (Page 94)

If human beings, through most of our history, have moved back and forth fluidly between different social arrangements, assembling and dismantling hierarchies on a regular basis, maybe the real question should be ‘how did we get stuck?’ How did we end up in one single mode? How did we lose that political self-consciousness, once so typical of our species? How did we come to treat eminence and subservience not as temporary expedients, or even the pomp and circumstance of some kind of grand seasonal theatre, but as inescapable elements of the human condition?

— The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow (Page 131)

There is no doubt that something has gone terribly wrong with the world. A very small percentage of its population do control the fates of almost everyone else, and they are doing it in an increasingly disastrous fashion.

— The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow (Page 90)

Fluoridation partially began as a collaborative effort between dental associations, the US government, and sugar lobbyists who wanted to fi nd a solution that would allow people to have fewer cavities while continuing to consume the same amount of sugar.

Studies confirm fluoride is directly toxic to thyroid cells and causes thyroid cell death, suppressing thyroid activity.

— Hashimoto's thyroiditis by Izabella Wentz PharmD, Marta Nowosadzka MD, Izabella Wentz PharmD (Page 216)