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Sugar tax needed, say US experts

From the BBC. Sugar is as damaging and addictive as alcohol or tobacco and should be regulated, claim US health experts. According to a University of California team, new policies such as taxes are needed to control soaring consumption of sugar and sweeteners. Prof Robert Lustig argues in the journal Nature for major shifts in [...]

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The Monday Morning Quote #142

Monday, November 21st, 2011

“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.” George Bernard Shaw

The Monday Morning Quote #141

Monday, November 14th, 2011

“The best way to sound like you know what you’re talking about.. ..is to know what you’re talking about.” Anonymous

The Monday Morning Quote #140

Monday, November 7th, 2011

“The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one’s work seriously and taking one’s self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.” —Margot Fonteyn

The Monday Morning Quote #139

Monday, October 31st, 2011

“People love to buy things, but almost no one wants to be sold.” Thomas Leonard

The Monday Morning Quote #138

Monday, October 24th, 2011

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain

The Monday Morning Quote #137 – from Sam for Sam

Monday, October 17th, 2011

The Sams in question being Beckett & Warburton. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Worstward Ho 1983

The Monday Morning Quote #136

Monday, October 10th, 2011

“When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If [...]

The Monday Morning Quote #135

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”  Winston Churchill

The Monday Morning Quote #134

Monday, September 26th, 2011

“The more a man is, the less he wants.” Maxwell Perkins

The Monday Morning Quote #133

Monday, September 19th, 2011

 ”The honest man could and did play it as honestly in Diplomacy as the honest man in business or on the executive of a Trade Union. The dishonest man will be no more honest in a new diplomacy than in the old.” Edward Grey

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