Extasy Angel Quotes & Sayings

Approximately eight hundred skeletons from the Dickson Mounds in the lower Illinois Valley have been analyzed. They reveal a clear picture of the health changes that accompanied the shift from foraging to corn farming around 1200 AD. Archaeologist George Armelagos and his colleagues reported that the farmers' remains show a 50 percent increase in chronic malnutrition, and three times the incidence of infectious diseases (indicated by bone lesions) compared with the foragers who preceded them. Furthermore, they found evidence of increased infant mortality, delayed skeletal growth in adults, and a fourfold increase in porotic hyperostosis, indicating iron-deficiency anemia in more than half the population. — Christopher Ryan

the ocean mist
engulfs me, like a lifetime's
friendship honored. — Sanober Khan

Romanians have a particular love for poetry and have a beautiful, vivid language. The poets they love are not versifiers like Vadim Tudor, but genuinely complex mystical souls like Mircea Cartarescu. — Andrei Codrescu

I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated. — Brian P. Cleary

If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial. — Michel De Montaigne

Water can be a symbol of purification, to stand naked before someone a sign of truth, of nothing to hide. - Nick Flynn — Nick Flynn

The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority. — Helen Andelin

there is no guarantee that an anonymity-free Internet would be a kinder, gentler Internet. — Whitney Phillips

Remember, how often the great art of the past didn't look great at first, how often it didn't look like art at all; how much easier it is, decades or centuries later, to adore it, not only because it is, in fact, great but because it's still here; because the inevitable little errors and infelicities tend to recede in an object that's survived the War of 1812, the eruption of Krakatoa, the rise and fall of Nazism. — Michael Cunningham

If everyone slept with the person he or she had secretly fallen in love with, the world would be chaos. — Elin Hilderbrand

Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows
comes the shape I am seeking for reason. — Audre Lorde

Cutting edge technologies have allowed us to utilize coal's diverse potentials. Not only are we using coal in cleaner and more environmentally sound methods, but importantly, we can turn coal into gasoline and diesel. — Peter Roskam

Torture, after all, is inconspicuous; all it needs is water, a piece of wood and a loud voice. It takes place in squalid rooms, dirty back yards and basements, and there is nothing left to preserve when it is over. — Eric Lomax