“What you do to your neighbor you do to yourself. To do wrong to your neighbor is not only selfish; it is masochistic.”

“Emotional states like deception, conflict, and anxiety can change breathing, which in turn influences the subglottal pressure and so impacts upon the voice. Breathing faster can alter the tempo of speech, whereas when we feel powerful we tend to breathe more deeply, and so our voices become lower. Simply remembering an emotion — a happy event, the shock of an accident — affects the movement of the diaphragm. A linguist and historian of literature even claimed that he’d managed to authenticate old manuscripts by studying his own respiratory changes while reading aloud poetry and prose. When the respiratory rhythm was different, he concluded that the lines had been written by a different author.”

“Curiously enough certain preservatives such as benzoate derivatives apparently destroy the ‘active’ qualities of irradiated fats like cholesterol and if this action is found to hold good at all times, the preservation of foodstuffs by means of substances such as benzoic acid, sodium benzoate, salicylic acid and salicylates would probably require new study and revision so as to preclude any interference with the natural properties that vegetables grown in sunlight should normally possess.”

“The curve for the sun at eight degrees was measured about half an hour before sunset. The peak in the spectrum of diffuse daylight then occurs at roughly 660 nanometers, or deep in the red part of the spectrum. Hours earlier, when the sun is high in the sky, at 70 degrees, the peak is at wavelengths some 200 nanometers shorter, or well into the blue part of the spectrum.”

“Essentially shock is a molecular disorder producing metabolic derangements revolving around aerobic glucose metabolism, resulting in increased amounts of lactic acid which greatly contribute to anxiety, and the products of amino acids, fatty acids, and phosphoric acids. The deficient metabolism of acids produces disruption in the membranes of the sacs of digestion and lytic enzymes known as lysosomes, with resulting death of the cell.”