Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
The frontal lobes allow us to plan and reflect, to imagine and play out future scenarios.
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I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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My confidence comes from my fights and my training.
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I would if I could. Coal mining was the best job I ever had.
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It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.
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When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.
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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?
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Businesses want to be in places where there is a deep talent pool.
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To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena - all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it.
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I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our technology.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.
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I think poverty is the biggest challenge for Los Angeles and for many of our cities that have come back from the recession.
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Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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The frontal lobes allow us to plan and reflect, to imagine and play out future scenarios.
