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• When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.

  Charles A. Murray

  Greatness, Europe, Ideas

  Charles A. Murray (2006). “In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State”, Aei Press

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• I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to be themselves and not try to be a big shot.

  Chris Burke

  People, Role Models, Trying

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• I think actors have a greater responsibility when doing comedy. It's as easy as anything to get cheap laughs, but that's not the idea at all. "The slight trip syndrome," we call it. With tragedy one can get away with things a bit more because audiences don't always know how to react.

  Peter Bowles

  Responsibility, Thinking, Ideas

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• Sometimes educators suffer from the "I already do that" syndrome. In those cases, we feel inadequate if we admit we have a distance to go as learners of our craft.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Distance, Suffering, Crafts

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• It's the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: "I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it."

  Rene Descartes

  Hate, Care, Seduction

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• Yo, yo, yo, check it out," said PJ, with enough hand gestures that any deaf person watching would have thought he had ASL Tourette's syndrome

  Christopher Moore

  Pjs, Hands, Gestures

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• I think you have a case of either 'testitis' or 'I Didn't Do My Homework Syndrome'. It's common in the Spring.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Spring, Thinking, Common

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• It's remarkable she [Venus Williams] plays at all, given her Sjögren's syndrome [an autoimmune disorder that can cause joint pain]. She's back, winning tournaments. She didn't allow society to tell her, "You have this disease; you can't do that anymore." I look at her, like, "She's not playing at 100 percent. You are. You don't have excuses." Knowing what she went through helped me try to be a more positive person.

  Serena Williams

  Pain, Winning, Play

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I diagnosed my loneliness as premature empty nest syndrome.

  Kristen Schaal

  Funny, Loneliness, Humor

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• I'm sure nobody wants to just work and earn money and all that stuff. I know it's difficult for people to break out of the syndrome, doing a normal job.

  Paul Simonon

  Jobs, People, Break Out

  Source: rocknycliveandrecorded.com

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• The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality.

  Spider Robinson

  Reality, Psychosis, Patterns

  "Lady Slings the Booze". Book by Spider Robinson, 1992.

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• The combination to be on guard for is young and bored, or young and resentful. You can spot them at social gatherings, the grad students or interns who tell you about syndromes, conditions, deviances, and disorders, and they love, love, love to talk. They speak in half-sentences with a knowing smile-squint, watch you falter at the pause, and then keep talking.

  Craig Clevenger

  Talking, Knowing, Bored

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• Exploring Feelings for Young Children with High-Functioning Autism or Asperger's Disorder: The STAMP Treatment Manual offers practical recommendations and creative practices that will certainly help young children with high functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome overcome their struggles with the really tough issues blocking their positive growth and development. Therapists, educators and parents caring for autistic children who endure a heavy load of anger, distrust, difficult interpersonal relationships, poor self-esteem and self-doubt need this excellent book.

  Liane Holliday Willey

  Children, Self Esteem, Block

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• At the end of each therapy session, I waited for an evaluation, a clinical judgment, some kind of pronouncement on "my condition." I hoped I suffered from something serious, a clear syndrome, maybe requiring heavy medication and hospitalization. I pictured myself wearing a robe and paper slippers and looking out of a window with bars on it. I wanted to be relieved of the responsibility of taking any action to help myself.

  Ken Dornstein

  Depression, Responsibility, Bars

  Ken Dornstein (2007). “The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky”, p.134, Vintage

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• With relationships, I always had a reason why some time in the future would be better for me than it was that day. When I was fat, I thought I'd feel pretty when I was thin, and when I was thin, I thought I'd be happier if I was more toned and muscular and had more money to look more coordinated. I wasn't comfortable in my own skin unless there was a man there to tell me just how radiant that skin looked. I was a victim of low self-esteem and had the Soon syndrome bad. I was running toward a brighter future, unaware of the mirages I'd created in the distance.

  Stephanie Klein

  Running, Self Esteem, Distance

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• "Playing" the resources of characterology for the sake of clarification and insight into the structures of actual existence is many times more daunting than playing a piano; it requires the thinking of chords of thoughts, not just isolated simplisms or abstracta; it demands the shaping or encompassing of morphological modes of intelligence that can comprehend gestalten, syndromes, historical and civilizational patterns in which it is not the particulars but their interactive significance (as an ensemble of actualities or principles) that is vital.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Thinking, Piano

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• Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. This is a mental illness. It is like looking through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars. It is as if you are living in a fantasy world of a fable. This is an interesting and sad syndrome. I’m sure that I have that syndrome. If it’s not it, then why the heck does my every moment with the ordinary girl feel like a fable?

  Joo Won

  Girl, Interesting, Ordinary

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• Everyone gets that second album syndrome.

  Niall Horan

  Albums

  "History boys: One Direction become first British act to top US charts with first two albums" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. November 22, 2012.

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• This nation should be less worried about putting the Vietnam syndrome behind us than restarting the World War II victory syndrome that resulted in the Vietnam syndrome in the first place.

  Karl Marlantes

  War, Victory, Vietnam

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like To Go To War”, p.66, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The celebrity syndrome. When people forget who they are and start to believe what other people say about them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Attitude, Believe, People

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• The new book by Nafeez Ahmed, based on very extensive and deep research, is by far the best on the 9/11 syndrome. Articulating and documenting what many feel, and empowering them into action, the book will have an impact on entrenched US empire elites unwilling and unable to take it on. Votes of thanks to Ahmed, and to Interlink!

  Johan Galtung

  Book, Impact, Empowering

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• I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.

  Donald Glover

  Book, Kids, Aspergers

  "GQ&A: Donald Glover". Interview with Andy Morris, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. March 29, 2012.

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• Now many of our Christians have what I call the 'goo-goo syndrome.' Good government. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

  Paul Weyrich

  Christian, Country, Government

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• Don't you know what marriage means in this world? They are mergers and acquisitions disguised as marriages. In other words, the takeover syndromes.

  Seo Do-young

  Drama, Mean, Acquisition

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• Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his available energy during the period prior to the onset of the depression and that the depressed state represents a kind of hibernation, during which the patient gradually builds up a new story of energy.

  Aaron T. Beck

  Depression, Energy, Hibernation

  Aaron T. Beck (1967). “Depression: Clinical, Experimental, and Theoretical Aspects”, p.36, University of Pennsylvania Press

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