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• When the anger is intense, the person with Asperger's syndrome may be in a 'blind rage' and unable to see the signals indicating that it would be appropriate to stop. Feelings of anger can also be in response in situations where we would expect other emotions. I have noted that sadness may be expressed as anger.

  Tony Attwood

  Anger, Sadness, Feelings

  Tony Attwood (2006). “The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome”, p.143, Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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• The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed of cells, as any tissue is. They are, to be sure, highly specialized cells, but they function according to the laws that govern any other cells. Their electrical and chemical signals can be detected, recorded and interpreted and their chemicals can be identified; the connections that constitute the brain's woven feltwork can be mapped. In short, the brain can be studied, just as the kidney can.

  David H. Hubel

  Law, Cells, Brain

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• The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding.

  Theaster Gates

  Art, Thinking, Museums

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• I already shred all my mail. What am I supposed to do now? Use pay phones? Smoke signals? Train pigeons? There's no such thing as privacy anymore.

  Dennis Adams

  Phones, Pay, Mail

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• It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.

  Byron Katie

  Inspirational, Hurt, Pain

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• May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government... All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Eye, Ignorance

  Thomas Jefferson (1943). “Thomas Jefferson: selections from his writings edited, with an introduction”

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• We need to develop a better descriptive vocabulary for lying, a taxonomy, a way to distinguish intentional lies from unintentional ones, and a way to distinguish the lies that the liar himself believes in-a way to signal those lies that could more accurately be understood as dreams.

  Rivka Galchen

  Dream, Liars, Lying

  Rivka Galchen (2008). “Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel”, p.56, Macmillan

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• That is what is most special about achieving equality - the positive signal that it will send the world over to the next generation of girls dreaming of winning Wimbledon or becoming a scientist or going to the moon as an astronaut.

  Maria Sharapova

  Girl, Dream, Winning

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• Why is Earth Day, today, also Lenin's birthday? Coincidence? Or does it signal the true intent of the national and worldwide environmental movement?

  Alan Caruba

  Earth Day, Environmental, Doe

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• Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck.

  Daniel Goleman

  Stress, Years, Brain

  "How to Manage Holiday Stress" by Daniel Goleman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 2, 2013.

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• Your natural inclination is to preach and to warn other travellers of snags in the path, but isn't it better to signal to them some of the joys by the way which they might otherwise miss?

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Joy, Missing, Might

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• I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention.

  John Muir

  Book, Mind, Attention

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.94, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Humanity, Quality, Characteristics

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.130, University of Georgia Press

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• I was a regular kind of academic music student. I was at Juilliard. I had to study all the contemporary music of the time, and changing that language very radically was just a sign or a signal that I was going to try to do something very different. I find that that's what I feel closest to. I found no real inner response in me in a non-tonal language.

  Philip Glass

  Real, Trying, Different

  Source: thomasmoore.info

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• Feelings are the fine instruments which shape decision-making in an animal cursed and blessed with intelligence, and the freedom which is its corollary. They are signals directing us toward goodness, safety, pleasure, and group survival.

  Willard Gaylin

  Blessed, Animal, Safety

  Willard Gaylin (1992). “The male ego”, Viking Pr

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• And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.

  LeVar Burton

  Children, Home, Tablets

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Paul's vision, though, is starting small, with actual communities in which reconciliation and justice has to be practiced - like the rich/poor distinction in the Corinthian church, for instance, or the projected reconciliation between Philemon and Onesimus. But he clearly believes (Ephesians 3) that communities like this send a signal to the wider world that Jesus is Lord - which is aimed at then the whole world coming into line.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Believe, Justice

  Source: kenwytsma.com

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• Interesting thing that is happening in American society is that people are starting to talk about money. I don't know how you feel about this, but for a long time, nobody was talking about money. It was a secret. And it's kind of very interesting because we do lots of stuff to portray to people about how much money we have, the clothes we wear and the cars we have and the house - they all kind of depict to other people, signal how much money we make, but we don't talk about it specifically.

  Dan Ariely

  Talking, Clothes, Long

  The Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

  James Q. Wilson

  Broken, Cost, Care

  James Q. Wilson (1995). “On Character: Essays”, p.126, American Enterprise Institute

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• One of the great errors organizations make is shutting down what is a natural, life-enhancing process-chaos. We are terrified of chaos. As a manager, it signals failure. But if you move out of control and into an appreciation of natural order, you understand that the only way a system changes is when it is far from equilibrium, when it moves from the 'quiet' we treasure and is confronted with the choice to die or reorganize. And you can't reorganize to a higher level unless you risk the perils of the path through chaos.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Appreciation, Moving, Organization

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• The neuro-biology of playing a musical instrument is completely scientific, but it’s also an absolute miracle, that you’re taking basically a calcium bucket filled with salt-water that’s run by a weak electrical signal, and you’re using it to move your flesh around in order to manipulate an instrument which disturbs air molecules between you and the listener, and then the listener’s ears picks up those disturbed air molecules which generates a weak electrical signal to their calcium bucket full of salt water, and they feel a feeling. That’s miraculous, and that’s where I live.

  Bob Brozman

  Running, Moving, Air

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• Of course it’s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see the processes that are leading toward these clusters of events, they’re happening. The star, the wheel, the butterfly—all are in a subtle state of unrest, waiting for the moment when some invisible mechanism signals that the time has come. Then the star explodes; the wheel makes poor men rich; the butterfly mates and dies.

  Clive Barker

  Stars, Butterfly, Men

  "Galilee". Book by Clive Barker, February 3, 1999.

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• Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either way, you get an engaged signal. Or your own answer message, if you have that kind of phone system.

  Nick Hornby

  Thinking, Phones, Numbers

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• How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I'm on the right track or that I've started at some place that you're familiar with?

  Alan Alda

  Track, Communicate, Familiar

  "World Science Festival: Brian Greene and Alan Alda Bring Science to the Masses". Interview with Clare Richardson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 02, 2011.

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• Islam lays great emphasis on the social side of things. Every day, the rich and the poor, the great and the small living in a locality are brought five times in a day in the mosque in the terms of perfect equality of mankind and thereby the foundation of a healthy social relationship is laid and established through prayer. At the end of Ramazan comes the new moon, the crescent as a signal for a mass gathering on the 'Id day again in perfect equality of mankind which effects the entire Muslim world.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Prayer, Moon, Perfect

  Message on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, October, 1941.

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