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• If you search the scientific literature on evolution, and if you focus your search on the question of how molecular machines - the basis of life - developed, you find an eerie and complete silence. The complexity of life's foundation has paralyzed science's attempt to account for it; molecular machines raise an as-yet-impenetrable barrier to Darwinism's universal reach.

  Michael Behe

  Eerie, Silence, Focus

  "Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution". Book by Michael Behe, 1996.

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• Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Female, Body

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.79, Vintage

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• The United States needs serious change in its fiscal, entitlement, infrastructure, immigration, and education policies, among others. And yet a polarized and often paralyzed Washington has pushed dealing with these problems off into the future, which will only make them more difficult and expensive to solve.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Immigration, United States, Needs

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• The Jew is contrary to our being. ... He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation, made our customs rotten, and polluted the morale.

  Joseph Goebbels

  People, Rotten, Spit

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• ...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered.

  Tim O'Brien

  Sleep, Blood, His Love

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental domain. The future cannot be separated from the present, and the present is painful beyond solace. ‘This is my last experiment,’ wrote a young chemist in his suicide note. ‘If there is any eternal torment worse than mine I’ll have to be shown.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Suicidal, Thinking

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.93, Vintage

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• Only the following items should be considered to be grave faults: not respecting another's rights; allowing oneself to be paralyzed by fear; feeling guilty; believing that one does not deserve the good or ill that happens in one's life; being a coward. We will love our enemies, but not make alliances with them. They were placed in our path in order to test our sword, and we should, out of respect for them, struggle against them. We will choose our enemies.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Struggle, Rights

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• Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence of a jellyfish, but I was also horrible to behold. There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke.

  Jean-Dominique Bauby

  Laughter, Fate, Blow

  Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.25, Knopf Group E-Books

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• Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say. “I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,” he says. “You should wake me,” I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down. “It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sleep, Thinking, Night

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• maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again.

  John Green

  Scared

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.94, Penguin

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• If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.

  Steven Pressfield

  Fear, Shows, Ifs

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.41, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Issues, Decision, Leaving

  "Opening Address At "Ceasefire! Bridging The Political Divide" Conference". www.realclearpolitics.com. June 20, 2007.

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• So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted out Marya's name because it was the first that came to mind, because in that moment she didn't want to get expelled and she couldn't think past that moment. She was scared, sure. But more importantly, maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again. ~Miles/Pudge on Alaska, pg 120-121

  John Green

  Thinking, Past, Alaska

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• ...hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.

  John Updike

  Hate, Hatred, Shelter

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit, Run”, p.302, Random House

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• Some damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, don’t be the paralyzed person in the bed who is waiting to walk again. Realize, it’s never gonna happen. And find some other way to get around –swing from a vine, get a Mad Max wheelchair. Anything but…wait.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mean, Swings, Mad

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• I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Father, Believe

  Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Perfect, Feelings, Adults

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• In America, the political system just is paralyzed for whatever reason. Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong, in that it's just become this giant blob bureaucracy, the primary objective is self-preservation, and the definition of self-preservation is don't do anything because then you continue to illustrate where you're needed.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Self, Political

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think we're paralyzed by the virtues of a combination of liberalism and bureaucracy. And Trump doesn't know any of that. All he knows, and he's like every other citizen, fed up with it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Citizens, Virtue

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The second thing she did was a play about Freud called 'The Far Country.' She played a paralyzed woman in Vienna who goes to see Freud.

  Tony Kushner

  Mother, Country, Thinking

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• So many people are paralyzed by worrying, "What are these people going to think?"

  Miriam Shor

  Thinking, People, Worry

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed.

  Moby

  Regret

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• A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.

  Alan Lightman

  Action, Imagine, Results

  Alan Lightman (2012). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those...prayers were destined to affect...we would be so paralyzed with awe...that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives.

  Peter Kreeft

  Prayer, Differences, People

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• Freedom is the basic thing. Consciousness grows in freedom and starts dying, becomes paralyzed and crippled, when things are forced. And up to now, this has been done. This is the greatest crime that parents have always committed against children. They go on forcing the child.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Parent, Dying

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