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Fruit and vegetables, instead, are foods extremely low in fats and high in fiber: by easing the passage of ingested food, they reduce the time of contact between possible carcinogens—present in our daily diet—with the walls of the intestines.

— Umberto Veronesi The First Day Without Cancer (2013)

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I have become convinced that every religion expresses the need for a certain population at that historical moment.

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