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“Some films could only have been cast in one way: Screen tests were given and the losers got the parts.”

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Gene Shalit, a renowned film critic, was born on March 25, 1926. His career began in the 1950s, and he became famous for his unique style of film criticism and profound insights into the art of cinema. more

“Some of my colleagues want to be The Anchorman on the Mount. Others see themselves as the Ace Reporter. Because of 60 Minutes, there's a whole herd of them determined to be The Grand Inquisitor and a heady number want only to be The Friendliest Anchor on the Block. At least one wants to be Jesus.”

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Book:And so it goes

Source: And so it goes

“Media literacy is not just important, it's absolutely critical. It's going to make the difference between whether kids are a tool of the mass media or whether the mass media is a tool for kids to use.”

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Author:Linda Ellerbee

“Pharmaceutical companies are very annoyed with niacin because their products have to compete with it. Some of their cholesterol-lowering drugs cost up to $150 a month while niacin costs about $10.”

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Author:Abram Hoffer

“I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They create a better behaved, chronic dependent person. Only with orthomolecular treatment can the majority of schizophrenic patients hope to become well and normally independent.”

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Book:Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone: Megavitamin Therapeutics for Families and Physicians

Source: Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone: Megavitamin Therapeutics for Families and Physicians

“Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed to believe in whatever their medical schools teach them and the leading doctors tell them. Over the past 20 years the drug companies, with their enormous wealth, have taken medicine over and now control its research, what is taught and the information released to the public.”

“It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next five to ten years, will cease to be a specialty in medicine and that all physicians will be using nurition as an essential tool in treating disease.”

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Author:Abram Hoffer

“Old Japanese saying, live scorpion in pants makes life interesting.”

Interesting Pants Scorpions

Author:Will Hobbs

“Dreams aren't practical, but we can't live without them.”

Dream Practicals

Author:Will Hobbs

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