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• When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows. You laugh hard every day.

  Amy Poehler

  Children, Heart, Laughing

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.235, Pan Macmillan

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• Chloride is essential for digestion and in respiration. Without sodium, which the body cannot manufacture, the body would be unable to transport nutrients or oxygen, transmit nerve impulses, or move muscles, including the heart.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Moving, Heart, Sodium

  Mark Kurlansky (2003). “Salt: A World History”, p.11, Penguin

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• ...man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen.

  Heinz Kohut

  Sympathy, Men, Compassion

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• I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life.

  M. Carey Thomas

  Book, Passion, Air

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• The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.

  Edward Abbey

  Rebel, Looks, Tents

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.22, RosettaBooks

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• It occurs to me as I write that this "white light," usually presented dippily (evidence of afterlife, higher power), is in fact precisely consistent with the oxygen deficit that occurs as blood flow to the brain decreases. "Everything went white," those whose blood pressure has dropped say of the instant before they faint.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Afterlife, White

  Joan Didion (2007). “The Year of Magical Thinking”, p.156, Vintage

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• Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Struggle, Simple, Years

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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