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commonplace book
Commonplace book (n.): an edited collection of striking passages noted in a single place for future reference.
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Monday, March 11, 2002

"The ancients understood that too much knowledge could actually impede human functioning -- this at a time when the encroachments on global nescience were comparatively few." --Cullen Murphy, 'DNA Fatigue,' The Atlantic, November 1997

(nescience NESH-uhn(t)s; NESH-ee-uhn(t)s, noun: Lack of knowledge or awareness; ignorance.)



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"Every man is the architect of his own fortune." --Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)

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"As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself." --Adelle Davis

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