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Power Without Accountability=total Freedom

a: Power without accountability ~
b: giving total freedom

What: "Allowing people to have power without accountability is like giving total freedom to a minor and expecting them to stay out of trouble. Edmund Burke stated, "The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse." This thought encompasses the problems we are facing today."

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Writer: Lionel Ketchian
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Nov 17 2011 12:56 PM


Oil As Oxygen

a: Energy ~
b: Oxygen to Civilisation

What: "Energy is like Oxygen to Civilisation; Restrict the Supply and We Strangle"

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Writer: Brian Gordon
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Feb 11 2012 1:21 PM



a: Circulatory system ~
b: a network of one-way streets

What: "The circulatory system is like a network of one-way streets. If blood started flowing the wrong way, the blood gases (oxygen and carbon dioxide) might mix, causing a serious threat to your body. In the lungs, capillaries on the outside of the alveoli exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen. Fresh, oxygen-rich blood enters the pulmonary veins and then returns to the heart, re-entering through the left atrium. "

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Writer: stevewest
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Jun 11 2014 5:30 PM



a: synaptic plasticity ~
b: flexible body

What:

"A brain with high synaptic plasticity is like a body that's flexible, loose, limber, toned -- the kind we love to see jogging in the park or performing acrobatic feats on television. "


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Writer: Not Stated
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Where:
Date: Feb 1 2015 8:13 PM



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