Edward Hallowell Quotes
As far as I can see, many people who don’t have ADD are charter members of the Society of the Congenitally Boring.
Quotes to Explore
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The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.
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I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
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War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
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It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power.
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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at peace.
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Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.
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If you say to me that men are so made that the strongest kicks the weakest in the teeth and then the strongest survive, and go on to argue that if you apply this to economics you will get a happy society, you have done an irreparable wrong as we know, as we have seen.
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In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.
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If swindling pays, then it will not stop. The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays. I can now add a slight variation on this; you cannot have a good society unless virtue pays. But here we get very close to the whole subject of metaneeds, and also of the ideal conditions where dichotomies are resolved and transcended.
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The constant questioning of our values and achievements is a challenge without which neither science nor society can remain healthy.
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Liberal education is the necessary endeavor to found an aristocracy within democratic mass society.
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I believe film and television should reflect our society, and the reality is that there are people in many different shapes and sizes, ethnicities, sexual orientation - the list goes on.
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The reality is that the only way change comes is when you lead by example.
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Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.
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I can't just wake up and watch TV and do nothing. I need a day off working out, seeing the wife, play a little golf, see my kids.
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[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?
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As far as I can see, many people who don’t have ADD are charter members of the Society of the Congenitally Boring.
