Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Instead, the continued secretion of stress hormones is expressed as agitation and panic.

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There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.
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I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.
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To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
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I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.
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No one's trying to get with jugglers.
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Have I turned into a motorized preacher? We spend so much time in cars that if you don't try to get some experiences out of it, you can go crazy.
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I’ve done a lot of deals, and I’m skilled at negotiating, managing personalities, and getting parties to the table.
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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
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There weren’t many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong.
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One thing you notice is that you want to walk in the door in the morning. So it's a nice job.
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I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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[But if things continue the way they are] ...the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war.
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But the character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre, and causing a panic. . . . The question in every case is whether the words are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.
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Instead, the continued secretion of stress hormones is expressed as agitation and panic.