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• Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous state of affairs. When individual thinkers and idealists talk of peace, as they have done since time immemorial, the effect is negligible. But when whole peoples become pacifistic it is a symptom of senility. Strong and unspent races are not pacifistic. To adopt such a position is to abandon the future, for the pacifist ideal is a terminal condition that is contrary to the basic facts of existence. As long as man continues to evolve, there will be wars.

  Oswald Spengler

  Strong, War, Men

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• We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which has left him still in a state of marked narcissism with all its pathological symptoms.

  Christopher Lasch

  Men, Emotional, Discrepancies Between

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Stress does not cause pain, but it can exacerbate it and make it worse. Much of chronic pain is 'remembered' pain. It's the constant firing of brain cells leading to a memory of pain that lasts, even though the bodily symptoms causing the pain are no longer there. The pain is residing because of the neurological connections in the brain itself.

  Herbert Benson

  Pain, Memories, Stress

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• A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command "love one another", an undue attention to the opposite sex, and so forth, up to the extreme of salacity, when the mind is wholly occupied by the urgent sexual appetite, and all restraint is abandoned.

  Daniel Hack Tuke

  Sex, Opposites, Erotic

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• When a decision is made to cope with the symptoms of a problem, it is generally assumed that the corrective measures will solve the problem itself. They seldom do. Engineers cannot seem to get this through their heads. These countermeasures are all based on too narrow a definition of what is wrong. Human measures and countermeasures proceed from limited scientific truth and judgment. A true solution can never come about in this way.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Decision, Balance, Definitions

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.84, New York Review of Books

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• By life's very nature we are compelled to find and maintain balance, or be subject to the symptoms of the lack thereof.

  Wes Fesler

  Balance, Subjects, Compelled

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• I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They create a better behaved, chronic dependent person. Only with orthomolecular treatment can the majority of schizophrenic patients hope to become well and normally independent.

  Abram Hoffer

  Life, Hope, Independent

  Abram Hoffer, CREATESPACE (2009). “Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone: Megavitamin Therapeutics for Families and Physicians”, p.108, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

  Ivan Klíma

  Memories, Being Me, Forget

  Ivan Klíma, Paul R. Wilson (1994). “The spirit of Prague: and other essays”, Granta (NY)

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• The consideration of man's body has not changed to meet the new conditions of this artificial environment that has replaced his natural one. The result is that of perceptual discord between man and his environment. The effect of this discord is a general deterioration of man's body, the symptoms of which are termed disease.

  Hilton Hotema

  Health, Men, Medicine

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• A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

  Eric Hoffer

  Soul, Doe, Misery

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Though it is hard to believe, it is conservatively estimated that 25 to 50 million Americans carry trichinae larvae in their muscles and internal organs. ...If the (trichinosis) worms affect the heart, respiratory systems, or the nerves, severe symptoms or even death may result.

  Ruth Winter

  Believe, Heart, Dark

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• We need to move beyond asking what drug will treat the symptoms, and instead ask what mechanism creates altered neurochemical or neurobiological function or systemic physiological change.

  Jeffrey Bland

  Moving, Drug, Needs

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• As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Appreciation, Civilization, Mind

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.46, Macmillan

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• The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes; It is always the same, wherever one goes. And the Pugs and the Poms, although most people say that they do not like fighting, will often display Every symptom of wanting to join in the fray. And they Bark bark bark bark bark bark Until you can hear them all over the park.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fighting, People, Pugs

  T. S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

  Vernor Vinge

  Ideas, Progress, Corny

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• Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Using Your Talents, Cybernetics, Emptiness

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit - a very common symptom indeed among God's children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.

  Watchman Nee

  Forgiveness, Christian, Spiritual

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.554, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• The collapse of the world's banking system and the impending disaster of accelerating climate change are not separate phenomena. They are simply the most visible symptoms of a particular model of capitalism that will bring civilisation to its knees. But those symptoms will not get sorted unless and until we commit to a radical transformation of the way we create and distribute wealth in the world today

  Jonathon Porritt

  Climate, Banking, World

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• Conflict can and should be handled constructively; when it is, relationships benefit. Conflict avoidance is *not* the hallmark of a good relationship. On the contrary, it is a symptom of serious problems and of poor communication.

  Harriet B. Braiker

  Communication, Good Relationship, Benefits

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• Exorcists always need to distinguish demonic possessions from mental or psychiatric disorders, and they use three symptoms to identify people as possessed. First, those people have the ability to see hidden sacred objects, which they always want removed. Second, they have an extraordinary physical strength. And third, they show an aversion to the sacred

  Gerard Verschuuren

  People, Evil, Three

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• Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error.

  Alveda King

  Errors, Racism, Abortion

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• What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of the more severe symptoms may not erupt until 10 or 20 years down the line.

  Bernie Sanders

  War, Believe, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

  Walter Lippmann

  Progress, Use, Movement

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• Amor deliria nervosa: It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being. Symptom number twelve.

  Lauren Oliver

  Thinking, Numbers, Decision

  Lauren Oliver, Veronica Roth, Lauren Conrad, Sara Shepard, Kiera Cass (2012). “Must-Read Teen Novel Sampler: For the Teen in All of Us: A Collection of Fabulous Reads”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Love Is, Kind, Tongue Tied

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.399, Vintage

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