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• The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.

  Barry Eichengreen

  Country, Wrath, Spain

  "Unity of the European Union is about to be tested" by Barry Eichengreen, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.

  Adam Ant

  Going Away, Malaria, Medication

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• The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.

  Pema Chodron

  Peace, Buddhist, Heart

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.118, Shambhala Publications

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• Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals, that's all. I am not creating a game. I am in the game. The game is not for children, it is for me. It is for an adult who still has a character of a child.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Children, Character, Thinking

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• Most people use their energy attempting to rearrange circumstances that trigger painful emotions. Changing external circumstances will not change your rigid patterns of emotional response. That requires looking at the patterns themselves.

  Gary Zukav

  Emotional, People, Use

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Feb 11, 2015

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• It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Important, Target, Weapons

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.329, Best Books on

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• Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Transformation, Intention

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Essence of the Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, p.52, Harmony

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• Your greatest adversary is also your greatest teacher. Like it or not, it is the job of certain people to bring out the worst in you. What they trigger is already in you. They are here to reveal the sore, tender wounded places in your heart and mind, and they are providing you with a wonderful and divine opportunity for healing.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Teacher, Jobs, Healing

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Nov 22, 2013

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• We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.

  Aldo Leopold

  Mean, Eye, Hunting

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "Arizona and New Mexico: Thinking Like a Mountain", p. 130-132, 1949.

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• Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

  David Letterman

  Motivational, Reality, Focus

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• The more two people open to each other, the more this wide-openness also brings to the surface all the obstacles to it: their deepest, darkest wounds, their desperation and mistrust, and their rawest emotional trigger points. Just as the sun's warmth causes clouds to arise by prompting the earth to release its moisture, so love's pure openness activates the thick clouds of our emotional wounding, the tight places where we are shut down, where we live in fear and resist love.

  John Welwood

  Fear, Emotional, Clouds

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• Typically, people who exercise start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. It's not completely clear why. But for many people, exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.

  Charles Duhigg

  Change, Fitness, Patience

  "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change". Book by Charles Duhigg, April 5, 2012.

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• How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, People, Used

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• [The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.

  Aaron Huey

  God, Tired, Government

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• Genetics loads the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger.

  Caldwell Esselstyn

  Gun, Lifestyle, Genetics

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• I've been the lowest low on the planet, I've been a sinner all my days. And I was living with my hands on the trigger, I had no sense to change my ways.

  Sting

  Honesty, Hands, Way

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• When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just as though nothing had ever changed.

  Roy Rogers

  Cowboy, Skins, Changed

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• Louis-Cesare’s anger suddenly filled the small room like water, and in a heartbeat his eyes went from silver tinged to as solid as two antique coins. I sat frozen, awash in a sea of power. I was beginning to understand why Mircea had wanted him along, only Daddy had failed to mention anything about the hair-trigger temper. I guess he assumed the red hair would clue me in.

  Karen Chance

  Eye, Hair, Sea

  Karen Chance (2008). “Midnight's Daughter”, p.151, Penguin

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• I’m more interested in a photography that is ‘unfinished’ - a photography that is suggestive and can trigger a conversation or dialogue. There are pictures that are closed, finished, to which there is no way in.

  Paolo Pellegrin

  Photography, Way, Unfinished

  "Open and Closed Photographs" by Peter Levi, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• My interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well.

  Bruno Latour

  Sleep, People, Climate

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• Take charge of hidden, sneaky sources of chronic inflammation that can trigger illness and disease by wearing comfortable shoes daily, getting an annual flu vaccine, and asking your doctor why you're not on a statin and baby aspirin if you're over the age of forty.

  David Agus

  Baby, Flu Vaccine, Shoes

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• A dream is not a very safe thing to be near... I know; I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it.

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Hurt, Hair

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.812, Modern Library

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• To be honest, I didn't want to believe that Christianity could radically transform someone's character and values. It was much easier to raise doubts and manufacture outrageous objections that to consider the possibility that God actually could trigger a revolutionary turn-around in such a depraved and degenerate life.

  Lee Strobel

  Believe, Character, Doubt

  Lee Strobel (2000). “The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity”, p.225, Harper Collins

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• "Please forgive me," Pleasant said, then aimed the gun at the girl and pulled the trigger.

  Derek Landy

  Girl, Gun, Forgive Me

  "Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire". Book by Derek Landy, April 1, 2008.

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