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Eating a high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet for two days decreases the amount of deep NREM sleep at night, but increases the amount of REM sleep dreaming, relative to a two-day diet low in carbohydrates and high in fat.
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
“Time is a flat circle,” Rustin Cohle says in the first season of *True Detective*. “Everything we have done or will do, we will do over and over and over again, forever.”
Time Is a Flat Circle
dailystoic.com
A succinct summary of the tragic vision was given by historians Will and Ariel Durant: Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for these are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.
The Vision of the Anointed
Thomas Sowell
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