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a: Vitamins ~
b: a good football team

What:

"Vitamins are like a good football team but you need a full team on the field with others, accessory players, on the bench waiting, watching the major players, each knowing what to do when necessary and each taking on a different job. A good team does not have extra players doing the same thing, nor feeding off another member. Each teammate works with the rest of the team's strengths without becoming weak or weakening the other, because it has support in knowing everyone else is doing their best"


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Writer: Don Lemmon
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Dec 25 2013 2:29 PM



a: Yin ~
b: water

What: "Taoism has a name for these complementary aspects of nature: yin and yang. Yin is the feminine aspect, or that which receives, and yang is the masculine aspect, or that which projects or directs. Yin is being; yang is doing. Yin is like water; yang is like fire."

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Writer: Ali Binazir
LCC:
Where:
Date: Oct 16 2014 5:43 PM



a: strong force ~
b: Velcro

What:

"A simpler way to think of the strong force is like Velcro. The force holds things together until a specific distance is reached and then the force goes to zero."


Useful?
Writer: Lincoln
LCC:
Where:
Date: Dec 8 2014 5:42 PM



a: Journeys ~
b: midwives of thought

What:

"Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train."


Useful?
Writer: Alain de Botton
LCC:
Where:
Date: Jun 11 2015 11:29 AM



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