“red hair is caused by sugar and lust.”
Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.”
Epigrams on Programming, 1982
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Michael Crichton (1942–2008) American author, screenwriter, film producer
Aliens Cause Global Warming (2003)
YG (rapper) (1990) American rapper from Compton, California
Everything we eat—the processed food and the stuff they put inside it.<br><br> "YG Explains Why He Went Vegan In 'Breakfast Club' Interview" https://www.vibe.com/2016/06/yg-breakfast-club-interview, Vibe.com (22 June 2016).
“No chemical carcinogen is nearly so important in causing human cancer as animal protein.”
T. Colin Campbell (1934) American biochemist
Editorial for the newsletter New Century Nutrition, December 1995; quoted in A Vegetarian Doctor Speaks Out by Charles Attwood (Prescott, AZ: Hohm Press, 1998), p. 133.
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Source: Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches
“Saliva causes cancer, but only if swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
“The smoke from burning marijuana contains many more cancer-causing substances than tobacco.”
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Taped statement (August 1979); Reagan is on record as opposing legalization of Marijuana: "I also want to applaud you for helping the people of Oregon fight a misguided minority that would legalize marijuana. That would be the worst possible message to send to our young people." Speech http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1986/073086a.htm (30 July 1986); Reagan's son Michael has disputed the fervor of his opposition: "Of course Dad was for legalization. … He wasn't crazy, he didn't want his kids in jail!"<br> "Reagan's Marijuana Comments Cause Stir" (11 May 2002) http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/5/11/12343.shtml <br class="br">1970s <br class="br">Context: The smoke from burning marijuana contains many more cancer-causing substances than tobacco. And if that isn’t enough it leads to bronchitis and emphysema. If adults want to take such chances that is their business. But surely the communications media … should let four million youngsters know what they are risking.
“There is no longer a single government that colonizes. There is only individual colonization.”
Jules Van Praet (1806–1887) Belgian diplomat
Source: All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), 4. Viceroys without colonial aspirations? Jules Van Praet (1806-1887) http://www.ethesis.net/leopold_II/leopold_II.htm#2.%20 The colonization of Santo Tomas in Guatemala marked a turning point in Belgium's young colonial history. The fiasco in Guatemala traumatized Belgian politics and also played a part in the increasing reticence of Van Praet, who passed on to the Duke of Brabant (Leopold II) the liberal criticisms of Minister Frère-Orban against the old-fashioned techniques of colonization with privileged societies or differential systems. JANSSENS, G. STENGERS, J. New light on Leopold I and II. The Goffinet Archive, 253.
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, and the founder of the Church of Scientology
Saint Hill Special Briefing Course 35 (19 July 1961).
