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Friday, December 09, 2016 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

If you were allowed one wish for your child, seriously consider wishing him or her optimism.

Optimists are normally cheerful and happy, and therefore popular; they are resilient in adapting to failures and hardships, their chances of clinical depression are reduced, their immune system is stronger, they take better care of their health, they feel healthier than others and are in fact likely to live longer.
Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate in Economics


Most environmentalists still haven’t got the word. Worldwide birth rates are in free fall…On every part of every continent and in every culture (even Mormon), birth rates are headed down. They reach replacement level and kept on dropping
Stewart Brand


Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.


That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest


You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.



One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
Sir William Osler, Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105
British (Canadian-born) physician (1849 - 1919)   


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