Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
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My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
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Today our books are numberless, and one man cannot master them in a lifetime. Now that the sea-waves are dashing upon our shores, unless we keep pace with the times and acquire Western learning, we shall be left in the lurch.
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If of their pleasures and desires no end be found;God to their cares and fears will set no bound.What would content you? Who can tell?Ye fear so much to lose what you have gotAs if ye liked it well.Ye strive for more, as if ye liked it not.
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At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.
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When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings.
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'When God calls a man or woman, what they will eat, what they will use and everything they need for their journey will be provided abundantly by God.'
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The President ordains the bee to be Immortal. The President ordains.
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Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.
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Into this Universe, and Why not knowing Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing.
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I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.
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In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
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The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.
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I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.
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Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.
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I am not a person to compromise on my priorities and family just for a show.
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
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I really don't think we've become a plutocracy, but I worry about the enormous influence that money has in a democracy such as ours.
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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
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In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.
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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
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Traumatic events are almost impossible to put into words.
