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• I'd just like to see thinking come back in style. I haven't heard a new idea in eight years. Let's get ordinary people arguing and talking again. I want to trigger new circuits in their nervous systems. That's the philosopher's job and I am the most important philosopher at this time.

  Timothy Leary

  Jobs, Thinking, Eight

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• My trigger finger itching, positioned at your dome, one twitch and it's on. No remorse or second thoughts.

  Snoop Dogg

  Revenge, Domes, Retribution

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• I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Believe, Talking, Too Much

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• Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them.

  Steven Johnson

  Children, Memories, Childhood

  Steven Johnson (2006). “Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter”, p.1, Penguin

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• The NRA, with the fingers on the triggers when they kneel and pray.

  Frank Zappa

  Politics, Praying, Nra

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• Advising the average person to not concern herself with calories but instead to pay attention to hunger triggers and eating foods rick in nutrients--well, it's a wonderful concept. I also love the thought of unicorns jumping over cotton candy rainbows. I'm even considering taking up basketball to see if it makes me taller. Come on already! Suggesting that someone who struggles with his weight does not need to think about calories is as risky as suggesting you not look at price tags the next time you're in the market for a car.

  Chalene Johnson

  Love, Basketball, Struggle

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• Sure, the killer was my son, but I didn't teach him to pull the trigger of the gun. It's the killer on this TV screen, you can't blame me, it's the images he sees.

  Jack Johnson

  Art, Son, Gun

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• My trigger got no heart.

  Big Pun

  Heart, Evil

  Song: We Don't Care, Album: Yeeeah Baby, 2000

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• Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.

  Marvin Gaye

  Reality, Panic, Crime

  Song: Inner City Blues, Album: What's Going On, 1971

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• The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying.

  Joel Stein

  Army, Order, People

  "Warriors and wusses". articles.latimes.com. January 24, 2006.

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• Ive just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers.

  Uri Geller

  Usa, America, People

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• I have no rules. For me, it's a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and I want there to be a lot of stuff in it. You're looking for every shot in the movie to have resonance and want it to be something you can see a second time, and then I'd like it to be something you can see 10 years later, and it becomes a different movie, because you're a different person. So that means I want it to be deep, not in a pretentious way, but I guess I can say I am pretentious in that I pretend. I have aspirations that the movie should trigger off a lot of complex responses.

  David Cronenberg

  Mean, Years, Different

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

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• Pull my trigger, I get bigger, then I'm lots of fun. I'm your gun, I'm your gun, gun, gun.

  Alice Cooper

  Sex, Fun, Gun

  Song: I'm Your Gun, Album: Trash, 1989

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• I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

  K. D. Lang

  Selfish, Thinking, Ego

  "I'm mistaken for a man every day". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2008.

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• Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences... That solves a lot of problems ... Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen ... [W]hat makes a work of art 'good' for you is not something that is already 'inside' it, but something that happens inside you.

  Brian Eno

  Art, Thinking, Quality

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• When the environment makes gender salient, there is a ripple effect on the mind. We start to think of ourselves in terms of our gender, and stereotypes and social expectations become more prominent in the mind. This can change self-perception, alter interests, debilitate or enhance ability, and trigger unintentional discrimination. In other words, the social context influences who you are, how you think and what you do.

  Cordelia Fine

  Thinking, Self, Expectations

  Cordelia Fine (2005). “Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences”, p.16, Icon Books Ltd

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• Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger. The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger.

  Patrick Stump

  Darkness, Get Better, Bullets

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• If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.

  Jim Allchin

  Smile, Needs, Waste

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• Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.

  Gijs de Vries

  Important, Als, Revolution

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• Nobody Beats Us! served as our main trigger... We practiced using trigger words, private verbal keys, which unlocked certain thoughts for us. We had a half-dozen phrases-some dealt with maintaining our technique, two dealt with maintaining our technique, two dealt with our stroke rating. The most powerful phrase was 'Nobody Beats Us!' According to our plan, when I said these words to Paul toward the end of the race, we would immediately shift into our final sprint, rowing as high and hard as possible, straight through, until we crossed the finish line.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Powerful, Keys, Race

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• There is a point of no return after which warming becomes unstoppable - and we are probably going to sail right through it. It is the point at which anthropogenic (human-caused) warming triggers huge releases of carbon dioxide from warming oceans, or similar releases of both carbon dioxide and methane from melting permafrost, or both. Most climate scientists think that point lies not far beyond 2 degrees C hotter (3.6 degrees F).

  Gwynne Dyer

  Lying, Ocean, Thinking

  "Four harsh truths about climate change" by Gwynne Dyerer, www.woodstocksentinelreview.com. December 4, 2008.

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• The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to become scarce. When they do, competition for what remains will trigger dramatic economic and geopolitical events; in the end, it may be impossible for even a single nation to sustain industrialism as we have know it in the twentieth century.

  Richard Heinberg

  Competition, Environmental, Energy

  Richard Heinberg (2003). “The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies”, New Society Pub

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• In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls. As a result, gold can be very volatile - upward and downward - at the peak of a crisis.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Gold, Credit, Causes

  "Gold prices are heading towards $1,000" by Nouriel Roubini, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2013.

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• Running is a quick trigger for a good mood. The great thing about endorphins, you don't have to be in great shape to get them.

  Mindy Kaling

  Running, Work Out, Shapes

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• Something in the movement of fingers on the keyboard enhances thought. Fingers pull your thoughts forward. Fingers are in some way an extension of your brain, with a lot of cortex associations at their trigger. Get them going!

  Josip Novakovich

  Brain, Association, Keyboards

  Josip Novakovich (2008). “Fiction Writer's Workshop”, p.6, Writer's Digest Books

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