Wheat Belly, Davis: cha 2

"Plants such as wheat have the ability to retain the sum of the genes of their forebears. Imagine that, when your parents mated to create you, rather than mixing chromosomes and coming up with forty-six chromosomes to create their offspring, they combined forty-six chromosomes from Mom with forty-six chromosomes from Dad, totaling ninety-two chromosomes in you. This, of course, doesn’t happen in higher species. Such additive accumulation of chromosomes in plants is called polyploidy." (Wheat Belly, Davis: cha 2)

The Sane Society, Fromm 1991:203

The aim of life is to live intensely, to be fully born, to be fully awake. To emerge from the ideas of infantile grandiosity into the conviction of one's real though limited strength; to be able to accept the paradox that every one of us is the most important thing there is in the universe - and at the same time not more important than a fly or a blade of grass. To be able to love life, and yet accept death without terror; to tolerate uncertainty about the most important questions with which life confronts us - and yet to have faith in our thought and feeling, insomuch as they are truly ours. To be able to be alone, and at the same time one with a loved person, with every brother on this earth, with all that is alive; to follow the voice of our conscience, the voice that calls us to ourselves, yet not to indulge in self hate when the voice of conscience was not loud enough to be heard and followed. The mentally healthy person is the person who lives by love, reason and faith, who respects life, his own and that of his fellow man. (The Sane Society, Fromm 1991:203)

The Sane Society, Fromm 1991:xvii

"[...] the tendency of political parties to abandon ideological platforms for political packaging p, presentation and personalities. The party intellectuals have been put out to grass, and replaced by marketing consultants." (The Sane Society, Fromm 1991:xvii)