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.
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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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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The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling.
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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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It's great to be compared to a great player like Tracy McGrady, but I think I'm my own type of player. I'm 6'10" and a bit bigger than he is as a player. I also think I'm a bit different and play a different position. He's more of a guard, and I can play all around through five.
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The mystery of the poor is this: That they are Jesus, and what you do for them you do for Him. It is the only way we have of knowing and believing in our love. The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.
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Ninety percent of the time when I'm working, there's this very palpable sensation that I'm doing everything wrong and should just give up.
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Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.
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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.
