Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Porges coined the word “neuroception” to describe the capacity to evaluate relative danger and safety in one’s environment.
Bessel van der Kolk
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
Maj Sjowall
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
Samuel de Champlain
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The Sphinx, the Pyramids, the stone temples are, all of them, ultimately, as flimsy as London Bridge; our cities but tents set up in the cosmos. We pass. But what the bee knows, the wisdom that sustains our passing life - however much we deny or ignore it - that for ever remains.
P. L. Travers
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I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.
Mae West
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Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imagined necessities... are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretenses to break known rules by.
Oliver Cromwell
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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
Elie Wiesel
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Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control.
Janis Karpinski
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I began teaching my son how to shoot when he was two, starting with the basics of a BB rifle. My theory is that kids get into trouble because of curiosity—if you don’t satisfy it, you’re asking for big problems. If you inform them and carefully instruct them on safety when they’re young, you avoid a lot of the trouble. My son has learned to respect weapons. I’ve always told him, if you want to use a gun, come get me. There’s nothing I like better than shooting.
Chris Kyle
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There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life.
D. B. Sweeney
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Brazil does not want to become an exporter of crude oil. No. We want to be a country that exports oil byproducts - more gasoline, high-quality oil - and to strengthen the petrochemical industry.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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I decided to get Ph.D. in experimental physics because experimental physicists have their own room in the Institute where they can hang their coat, whereas theoretical physicists have to hang their coat at the entrance.
George Gamow
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Porges coined the word “neuroception” to describe the capacity to evaluate relative danger and safety in one’s environment.
Bessel van der Kolk
