Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
When you don’t feel real nothing matters, which makes it impossible to protect yourself from danger.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.
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I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.
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It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
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No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.
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When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
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What we need is action. The problem for the European Union is that we can only go at the pace of the slowest. Therefore, there is a special responsibility on the countries which have failed so far implementing measures to get moving.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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You have only one life, make the most of it
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A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
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Ann Coulter to me is someone who says things that I say all the time, but I say them at three in the morning when I'm drunk as a monkey. She says them at three in the afternoon stone sober in bright daylight.
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Man was so engineered by God that the presence of the Creator within the creature is indispensable to His humanity.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.
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I don't think I could keep my position as a well-standing man in the world if I thought there were roles for men and women.
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We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.
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I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?
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So far, the Far Eastern focal point of danger is the most active.It is possible, however, that the center of the menace may shift to Europe. Evidence of this is provided, for instance, by [Adolf] Hitler's recent interview given to a French paper. In this interview, Hitler seems to attempt to say peaceful things. But this "peacefulness" of his is so thickly interspersed with threats against France and the Soviet Union that nothing remains of the "peacefulness".
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Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.
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When you don’t feel real nothing matters, which makes it impossible to protect yourself from danger.
