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“I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.”

Giving Pain Blood Fifteen Submission Rope Circulation Bending Claustrophobia Blood Circulation

Author:James Stockdale

“If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.”

Ifs Humans Wells Kind Has Beens Done Blood Theory Circulation Ahimsa Vivisection

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“You get most out of walking by going along briskly, swinging the arms and breathing deeply. It also helps promote the circulation of blood to the brain. The Greek philosophers promenaded as they philosophized.”

Helping Brain Blood Arms Walking Philosopher Breathing Greek Circulation Greek Philosopher

Author:Paul Dudley White

“Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.... storytelling is intrinsic to biological time, which we cannot escape. Life, Pascal said, is like living in a prison from which every day fellow prisoners are taken away to be executed. We are all, like Scheherazade, under sentence of death, and we all think of our lives as narratives, with beginnings, middles and ends.”

Thinking Humans Said Ends Taken Our Lives Blood Human Nature Breaths Fellows Prison Sentences Storytelling Narrative Prisoner Circulation Narration Pascal

Author:A. S. Byatt

“It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room to hear two sounds: one high, my nervous system in operation, one low, my blood in circulation. The reason I did not expect to hear those two sounds was that they were set into vibration without any intention on my part. That experience gave my life direction, the exploration of nonintention. No one else was doing that. I would do it for us. I did not know immediately what I was doing, nor, after all these years, have I found out much. I compose music.”

Knows Years Two Reason Found Sound Rooms Blood Lows Years Ago Intention Silent Nervous Operations Forty Exploration Expecting Chamber Vibrations Harvard Nervous System Circulation Life Direction

Author:John Cage

“Sophos turned red, and I wondered about the circulation of his blood; maybe his body kept an extra supply of it in his head, ready for blushing.”

Body Blood Ready Red Extras Circulation Blushing

Book:World of the Queen's Thief Collection: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, Thick as Thieves

Source: World of the Queen's Thief Collection: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, Thick as Thieves