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Avastin

a: Avastin ~
b: Crime

What: The comment I heard, I wish I could remember the site was than Avastin was like taking the knives away form the criminals, so they went out and got guns. It may make cancer cells more virulent.

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Writer: LucretiaGermanica
LCC: RM
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Aug 20 2009 10:55 AM


The Dripping Water Mind

a: Mindfullness ~
b: water dripping on a rock

What: "Mindfulness is like water dripping on a rock. With each drip it gradually wears through what appears to be an impenetrable emotional experience."

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Writer: Not Stated
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: May 10 2012 3:54 PM



a: The sensualist ~
b: house-proud woman

What:

"The ascetic keeps a hovel of a dwelling; the sensualist is like a house-proud woman whose house possesses her rather than she possessing it. The only prison-house is of man's own building of the hard blocks of rigid ideas, prejudices, forms,and names.Austerities and indulgences are equally an imbalance and a disturbance of the yin-yang harmony. Taoist mysticism is an intellectual, not an emotional, exercise; it has no personal God by whom it can feel accepted or rejected. Instead there is a calm contemplation of the sublime immensity of the universe and an entering into the smallest detail of nature. "


Ibid., XIII. Wang Li Yung (active 1120-after 1145), The Transformations of Lord Lao, Southern Sung dynasty, early 12th century


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Writer: Jean C. Cooper, ‎Joseph A. Fitzgerald
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Date: Jan 20 2014 10:06 AM



a: Particle accelerator ~
b: drinking straw

What:

"This driveway intrigued me. I've never seen anything like it in Santa Clarita, California. I imagine it marks the meeting place of the Illuminati or some other ancient order. I did some research on the Wroclaw area and evidently in WWII the Nazis were doing some anti-gravity studies. (Go with me on this - I'm not sure of the veracity of these claims, but they make for interesting reading.) Anyway, just outside of Wroclaw deep in a mine the Nazis operated a secret laboratory where they worked on something called the Nazi Bell. Some say it was an anti-gravity experiment and others say it was a heavy particle accelerator. (I think a particle accelerator is like the straw I used to shoot pieces of napkin at my sister.)"


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Writer: Heidi
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Date: Dec 17 2014 11:26 AM



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