Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.
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If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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I'm not big on remakes.
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I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.
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America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
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Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
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My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.
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Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
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Black was not the universal hue of mourning in Europe. In Castile, white obtained on the death of its princes.
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Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores.
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So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen.
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How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability.
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The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!
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The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction in the making of which man plays not part. The solution is not to be found in the result achieved, but in the way of achieving it.
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Memories to the distant past, allowing the present and future to emerge.
