APHORISMS FOR PEACE AND HEALTH

 A brother is no bother; we all have the same Father.
 Addiction is a funeral, not fun.
 Addiction is a phantasmagoria of euphoria.
 A fool focuses on his knowledge. A wise man focuses on his ignorance.
 A healthy diet is like a good recipe: you need the right ingredients in the right proportions.
 A lot of science is just "lab oratory."
 America needs a "commander-in-chef."
 Art is the translation of common pain into uncommon beauty.
 Art is pictures that create words. Literature is words that create pictures.
 At Halloween, monstrous people dress their little monsters as monsters.
 At the very least, life is a matter of life and death.
 Beauty is sincere and dear, not artifical or superficial.
 Break the vicious cycle. Start the nutritious cycle.
 Celibacy and chastity can make you crotchety.
 Childhood does not last forever, but the mistakes of childhood do.
 Children love cartoons because they highlight life's marvel - ANIMATION.
 Civilization is water management.
 Complexity conceals perplexity.
 Conformity is an infection which requires a dose of disaffection.
 Creativity is a joint venture between your conscious and unconscious.
 Dedicate yourself to your internal health, and your appearance will take care of itself.
 Diet and behavior are inseparable.
 Don't measure yourself; treasure yourself.
 Each day is a lifetime: waking up is like birth, and falling asleep is like death.
 Education is humbling: it teaches us that we are arrogant, ignorant, and impotent.
 Escape your bind. Be kind. Use your mind.
 Experts are smitten with their smarts.
 Faith is the comfort and courage we get from accepting the past, tolerating the present, and trusting the future.
 Food is live medicine; medicine is dead food.
 Genetics is the transmogrification of protean magic into protein mystery.
 God creates; man recreates.
 God is a creator; man is a realtor.
 Good writing is a definitive statement about life's indefiniteness.
 Good writing is a link between think and ink.
 Good writing is rumination with illumination.
 Good writing is a smooth flow of lucid, logical, linguistic linkages.
 Government is blind, because public officials lack insight and oversight.
 Government is so consistently incompetent and corrupt that the party in power typically looks worse than the party out of power.
 Governments collect dollars and cents, but dispense dolor and nonsense.
 Gravity is earth's embrace.
 Health is the shield between life and death.
 Hell is a hopeless search for help.
 Home cooking is health ensurance.
 Horticulture is botany without monotony.
 If necessity is the mother of invention, tragedy is the father.
 In a democracy, citizens vote, but politicians veto.
 In Paradise, humanity is humane.
 Injustice is Mother Nature's motto; the cross is her logo.
 Intelligence is foresight, hindsight, insight, and oversight, not righteousness or spite.
 It’s better to be rejected for who you are, than accepted for who you’re not.
 It's more humane to cure your enemies than to kill them.
 Knowledge with common sense is wisdom. Knowledge without common sense is nonsense.
 Let's not be offensive or defensive like liberals and conservatives; let's be pensive.
 Let's promote peace and health as artists and artisans, not as partisans.
 Life depends on metabolism and food, just as industry depends on machinery and fuel.
 Life is a compulsory lottery with great advertising but no prizes.
 Life is a contest in which animals compete to eat and plants compete to be eaten.
 Life is a slalom. Man is a schussboomer.
 Life is like a ride on a subway train. The only thing worse than the trip is the destination.
 Life is magic. Addiction is tragic.
 Life is not a contest or a conquest, but a quest for the best in each and every one of us.
 LOVE Diet your enemy.
 Man's downfall is his intolerance of uncertainty.
 Man's fundamental problem is that Mother Nature is neither human nor humane.
 Man's quest is questionable. Life is unexplained, not inexplicable.
 Many believe and opine, but few perceive or define.
 Money is stock issued by a nation-state. As your portfolio increases, so does your citizenship.
 Most parents teach their children, by example, what not to do.
 Nothing should be taken at face value - least of all, a face.
 Now, more than ever before, time must be realized, not just memorialized.
 Nutrition enables. Addiction enslaves.
 Oat cuisine trumps haute cuisine.
 Our quest for maternal substitutes drives and defines our lives.
 Peace and health are inseparable.
 People who are always right lack the courage to be wrong.
 People who have all the answers never ask themselves any questions.
 People who are lovesick and love-starved are sick from addictive substances and starving for nutritious food.
 Political correctness is veridical indirectness.
 Politicians are impostors who posture, bandits backed by pundits, and backstabbers masquerading as backslappers.
 Politicians who tell us to come together and move forward, are herding us like cattle.
 Politics is abstraction and distraction without traction or action.
 Politics is a Colosseum, in which liberals give us bread (welfare) and conservatives give us circus (war).
 Politics is a tug-of-war between liberals and conservatives in which the center of the rope is wrapped around the public's neck.
 Politics is false promises based on false premises, and false choices based on false voices.
 Politics is a metastatic cancer of cronyism, phoneyism, and baloneyism.
 Politics is not about lying and cheating; it's about getting away with it.
 Pregnancy is umbilication. Birth is disumbilication. Sex is reumbilication.
 Proper nutrition promotes aging without infirmity.
 Racism is a pigment of the imagination.
 Realism requires appropriate levels of both optimism and pessimism.
 Regardless of age or occupation, Monday morning is like the first day of kindergarten.
 Reject your limits, but respect your limitations.
 Science is prescience plus conscience.
 Scientists and adults ask "how." Artists and children ask "why."
 Scripture is divinely inspired epic poetry about a messiah whose supernatural healing powers resolve longstanding family feuds over food, fortune, favoritism, fame, fate, and faith.
 Security requires the maturity to recognize that we are more biological than logical.
 Sleep is a review of yesterday's casualties and tomorrow's battle plans.
 Small changes in your diet make big changes in your health.
 Small changes in your habits make big changes in your health.
 Small changes in your health make big changes in your life.
 Society indemnifies itself by condemning the individual.
 Society is a euphemism for status quo-opathy.
 Society is like a pond: the scum floats to the top.
 Society needs an economy based on nutrition and health (LOVE Economy), not addiction and sickness (HATE Economy).
 Society needs fewer pharmacists and more "farm-assists."
 Society needs fewer chiefs and more chefs.
 Start art stat.
 Stereotyping is ethnocentrism, racism, sexism, paternalism, chauvinism, elitism, egotism, narcissism, and solipsism.
 Technology connects us with others, but disconnects us from ourselves.
 The best way to cut the Gordian knot is with Occam's razor.
 The cause of conflict is not your enemy, but your enemy's diet. The cause of conflict is not who, but what.
 The conflict in the Middle East is caused by the diet of the "middle's eats" (stomach's food).
 The economy is a contradictory blend of capitalism and socialism. Capitalism individualizes, privatizes, commoditizes, and commercializes; while socialism collectivizes, improvises, prioritizes, and civilizes.
 The euphoria of addiction is a false heaven. The sickness of addiction is a real hell.
 The Land of Milk and Honey is the Land of LOVE and HATE.
 The LOVE Diet is a prescription for peace and health.
 The path to world peace begins with individual health.
 The role of a doctor should begin with the doctor's recognition that the doctor is sick and scared, just like the patient.
 The USA is in the center of Jerusalem.
 There are three reasons for your actions: the reason you give others; the reason you give yourself; and the real reason.
 Time is a Möbius loop, with the past and future spliced in the present.
 Time is God's patience: when God runs out of patience, we've run out of time.
 To change your mood, change your food.
 Today's modern medical center is tomorrow's Bedlam.
 To know the unknowable, think the unthinkable.
 To stop a feud, change the food.
 Tourism bridges the divide between yourism and ourism.
 Universal healthcare needs universal self-care.
 Violence is ruinous, but patience is luminous and numinous.
 Water can cleanse, drench, and quench, but it should never stench.
 Words don't count; deeds do.
 World events are shaped more by addiction than conviction.
 Writing is a link between think and ink.
 Your hunger and thirst come first.

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