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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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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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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Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.
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Growing up shouldn't mean giving up.
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I am 60, and I am as much an internationalist as when I was younger, when I was a Marxist-Leninist. Internationalism is one of the rare pieces of that heritage to which I remain loyal. That is Barack Obama's strength. A politician has finally understood that politics is not only about the closing of a mine in Ohio-it is also about the will to reach out, to embrace the world of today's young Americans. That way, young Americans may eventually reconcile with politics.
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When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
