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• Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others.

  Helen Fisher

  Jealous, Insecure, People

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• The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Thinking, Vanity, Order

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• A symptom of the revolution: When we state something is impossible in theory, but then change our minds when we discover that it is possible in practice.

  Seth Godin

  Impossible Things, Possible And Impossible, Practice

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• Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear symptom of bipolar disorder. And I'm not saying that every, you know, I'm not accusing every memoirist of being bipolar. But I think in a way it's kind of a gift.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Mean, Thinking, Bipolar

  "Ayelet Waldman: On Feeling Like A 'Bad Mother'". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 4, 2010.

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• Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

  George Orwell

  Worst Enemy, Nineteen, Nervous

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.52, Arcturus Publishing

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• All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

  John Steinbeck

  War, Animal, Men

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Once There Was a War”, p.9, Penguin

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• The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Firsts, Appearance, Norm

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.510, Google Publishing

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• Cure the symptoms, cure the disease.

  Michael Crichton

  Cancer, Disease, Cures

  Michael Crichton (2012). “The Andromeda Strain”, p.115, Vintage

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• The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.

  Antonin Artaud

  Art, Ideas, Leisure

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.77, Grove Press

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• If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its symptoms are endless.

  Richard Armour

  Stupidity, Weakness, Endless

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• I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Depression, Voice, Bipolar

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• Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

  Jane Austen

  Essence, Prejudice, Incivility

  Jane Austen (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.194, Waking Lion Press

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• A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Money, Men, Views

  "Money And Class In America: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion" by Lewis H. Lapham, 1989.

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• It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Distance, Lying

  Thomas Carlyle (1872*). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Burns. Life of Heyne. German playwrights. Voltaire. Novalis. Signs of the times. On history. Appendix: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter's review of Madame De Stael's 'Allemagne.' Schiller, Goethe and Madame De Stael”

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• I have hour spurts when I feel fine and I can walk normal and stuff, other hours, I'm wobbling. I feel like there's somebody behind me kicking my legs out from underneath me. The whole tumor symptom thing is crazy. It's unpredictable. It really messes with your life.

  Lauryn Hill

  Life, Crazy, Kicking

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• The idea that we are "stewards of the earth" is another symptom of human arrogance. Imagine yourself with the task of overseeing your body's physical processes. Do you understand the way it works well enough to keep all its systems in operation? Can you make your kidneys function? Can you control the removal of waste? Are you conscious of the blood flow through your arteries, or the fact that you are losing a hundred thousand skin cells a minute?

  Lynn Margulis

  Cells, Blood, Ideas

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• Giving government aid to a bank basically transforms it into a utility. The huge salaries in this sector are only a symptom of a more profound misalignment. The profitability of the finance industry has been excessive. [...] That was absurd.

  George Soros

  Government, Giving, Profound

  "Mathias Müller von Blumencron, Gregor Peter Schmitz and Gabor Steingart". Interview with Mathias Müller von Blumencron, Gregor Peter Schmitz and Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. November 24, 2008.

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  Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

  Frida Kahlo

  White, Racism, Males

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Whether we love humanity or not, we must realize that we are part of it. My future depends entirely on the future of humanity, and so I am compelled to take care of humanity. That is why being compassionate is actually in my own best interest. And a symptom of my own peace of mind is that I can share comfort with others around me.

  Dalai Lama

  Humanity, Mind, Comfort

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Emotional, Culture, Illness

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• Plant medicine does not just improve symptoms; it approaches healing the whole of the body - as opposed to Western medicine, which may just approach the symptom.

  Karen Rose

  Healing, Plant Medicine, Doe

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Birthday, Age, Emotion

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• Whether or not, you know, people think that Martin Shkreli is the worst person in the world, the reality is that he is the symptom or a larger problem in an pharmacology industry.

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Thinking, Reality, Worst Person

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.

  Jeb Hensarling

  Disease, Spending, Deficit

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• War is not in itself a condition so much as the symptom of a condition, that of international anarchy. If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order

  Alfred Hermann Fried

  War, Order, Justice

  Alfred Hermann Fried (1918*). “International Co-operation”

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