Disorder Quotes - Page 29

• We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.

  Iris Murdoch

  Iris Murdoch (2008). “A Word Child”, p.362, Random House

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• Today, however, anti-vaccine activists go out of their way to claim that they are not anti-vaccine; they’re pro-vaccine. They just want vaccines to be safer. This is a much softer, less radical, more tolerable message, allowing them greater access to the media. However, because anti-vaccine activists today define safe as free from side effects such as autism, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, and blood clots—conditions that aren’t caused by vaccines—safer vaccines, using their definition, can never be made.

  Paul A. Offit

  Heart, Blood, Vaccines

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• Far too often, children with developmental disorders are diagnosed solely on the basis of their observable behavior, slotted into broad diagnostic pigeonholes and provided generalized treatments that may not always meet their specific needs.

  Aditi Shankardass

  Children, Needs, May

  "Searching for roots of learning disorders" By Aditi Shankardass, www.cnn.com. July 13, 2010.

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• Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food.

  Richard Simmons

  Fun, Coffee, School

  "Pharaohs of fitness". Interview with Julie Deardorff, www.chicagotribune.com. April 18, 2012.

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• The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize - too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries."

  Kate Zambreno

  Girl, Writing, Greatness

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Kate Zambreno". Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. November 18, 2012.

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• The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Opposites, Gains, Robust

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and unfortunately, when - there's something I call the Soviet Illusion. The more the government becomes intrusive, the more things have to follow a script, and it can't handle this kind of system.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Errors, Government, Benefits

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [...] homosexuality should be seen in broader terms: as arrested development caused by confusion over sexual identity, resulting in inability to bond permanently with a member of the opposite sex and (usually) establish a family. The main symptom of this disorder is the pursuit of impersonal sex for its own sake (i.e. promiscuity).

  Henry Makow

  Sex, Opposites, Confusion

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• In the tumult and uproar, the battle seems chaotic, but there is no disorder, the troops appear to be milling about in circles but cannot be defeated.

  Sun Tzu

  Circles, Battle, Troops

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• To my great surprise, I never heard anyone cry out in the disorder, even though they suffered in great agony. They died in silence, with no grudge, setting their teeth to bear it. All for the country!

  John Hersey

  Country, Agony, Silence

  John Hersey (1985). “Hiroshima”, Vintage

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• But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

  Honore de Balzac

  Passion

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• Homosexuality is a mental disorder that can be cured through counselling.

  Stockwell Day

  Homosexuality, Mental Disorder

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• Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.

  Paul Valery

  Order, Two, Police

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• One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Peace, War, Order

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• Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.

  William Styron

  Self, Way, Painful

  William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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• Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can be treated.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  People, Facts, Painful

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• I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures that those who have it will experience a frightening, chaotic and emotional ride. It is not a gentle or easy disease.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Emotional, Years, Bipolar

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• Chaos, if it does not harden into a pattern of disorder, may be more fruitful than a regularity too easily accepted and a success too easily achieved.

  Lewis Mumford

  Doe, May, Patterns

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• She [Sarah Palin] by no - has any basic understanding of what post -traumatic stress disorder is, so I think it gives the rest of us an opportunity to have a real conversation about some of these problems.

  Jon Soltz

  Real, Stress, Opportunity

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

  Rand Paul

  Children, Talking, Vaccines

  "Science Of Vaccines Is Settled - But Politics Are More Complicated". "All Things Considered" with Tamara Keith, www.npr.org. February 3, 2015.

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• Having an eating disorder doesn't show ‘strength.’ Strength is when are able to overcome your demons after being sick and tired for so long. Starving is not a ‘diet’ and throwing up isn't something that only extremely thin men or women do. Eating disorders do not discriminate..Neither does any other mental illness. These are deadly diseases that are taking lives daily. So please, let's be cautious of the words we use when discussing ED's and other mental illnesses.

  Demi Lovato

  Tired, Men, Sick

  Demi Lovato @ddlovato, twitter.com. November 12, 2014.

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• The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Health, Men, Medical Knowledge

  Journal Intime 22 August (1873)

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• Order seems to come from searching for disorder, and awkwardness from searching for harmony or likeness, or the following of a system. The truest order is what you already find there, or that will be given if you don't try for it. When you arrange, you fail.

  Fairfield Porter

  Order, Trying, Failing

  Fairfield Porter, Ted Leigh, Justin Spring (2005). “Material witness: the selected letters of Fairfield Porter”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

  Phyllis Diller

  Mothers Day, Mom, Fathers Day

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• Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Order, Roots, Profound

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