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• A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures.

  Ambrose Bierce

  God, Years, Said

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.24, 谷月社

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• What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

  Alice Miller

  Pain, Recovery, Addiction

  Alice Miller (2008). “Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth”, p.126, Basic Books

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• Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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• Stress is a signal that something needs to change. Suffering, is when we don't make the change!

  Bill Crawford

  Stress, Suffering, Needs

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• I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.

  Bruce Robinson

  Men, Hair, Brain

  Bruce Robinson (2015). “Withnail and I”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a regrettable accident to be borne patiently for a while, that she happened to be imprisoned among people who were dull. She had caught a glimpse of another world and she knew it existed somewhere, the world that had created trains, bridges, telegraph wires and signal lights winking in the night. She had to wait she thought, and grow up to that world. - Dagny Taggart

  Ayn Rand

  Children, Growing Up, Night

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• Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets felt psychologically necessary and rewarding, where respect was dependent on baroque displays. Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love.

  Alain de Botton

  Emotional, Luxury, Self

  Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.82, Vintage

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• Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. The lighthouse of the Lord beckons to all as we sail the seas of life. Our home port is the celestial kingdom of God. Our purpose is to steer an undeviating course in that direction. A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder—never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: Chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Home, Men, Sea

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• ...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them..." ~ Thomas Builds-the-Fire (played by Evan Adams) in Alexie's "Smoke Signals

  Sherman Alexie

  Children, Fall, Fire

  FaceBook post by Sherman Alexie from Sep 22, 2015

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• How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at sea, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us.

  Julian Barnes

  Dark, Sea, Sky

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• Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspirational, Writing, Kicks

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.117, Anchor

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• When you want to attract something into your life, make sure your actions don’t contradict your desires.. Think about what you have asked for, and make sure that your actions are mirroring what you expect to receive, and that they’re not contradicting what you‘ve asked for. Act as if you are receiving it. Do exactly what you would do if you were receiving it today, and take actions in your life to reflect that powerful expectation. Make room to receive your desires, and as you do, you are sending out that powerful signal of expectation.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Powerful, Thinking, Expectations

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• It's as simple as finding something on the street and then writing a jingle. If I'm driving and I have my turn signal on and it's rhythmic, maybe I just write a song to that.

  Nate Ruess

  Song, Writing, Simple

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• When you have an emotional reaction to what you see, you are judging. That is your signal that you have an issue inside of yourself - with yourself - not with the other person. If you react to evil, look inside yourself for the very thing that so agitates you, and you will find it. If it were not there, you will simply discern, act appropriately, and move on.

  Gary Zukav

  Moving, Emotional, Issues

  Gary Zukav (2007). “Soul to Soul: Communications from the Heart”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Walking back from the convention site I chatted with a normal Bostonian for several blocks -- who must have identified me through our covert system of signals. He was mostly bemused by the Democrats' primetime speakers and told me he used to be an independent, but for the last 20 years found himself voting mostly Republican. Then he corrected himself and said he votes for the American.

  Ann Coulter

  Block, Independent, Years

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• So the controversy over Duck Dynasty sends a clear signal to anyone who has anything to risk in public life: Say nothing about the sinfulness of homosexual acts or risk sure and certain destruction by the revolutionaries of the new morality. You have been warned.

  Albert Mohler

  Ducks, Risk, Dynasty

  FaceBook post by Albert Mohler from Dec 19, 2013

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• As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take time to travel from your sensory organs along the multiple neuronal pathways in your body to your brain, and they take time to be processed and transformed into objects, scenes, and complex situations. So, strictly speaking, what you are experiencing as the present moment is actually the past.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Past, Information Processing, Brain

  Thomas Metzinger (2009). “The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self”, p.36, Basic Books

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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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• Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with our exhausting expectations, to make the Bible something it’s not meant to be, isn’t a pious act of faith, even if it looks that way on the surface. It’s actually thinly masked fear of losing control and certainty, a mirror of an inner disquiet, a warning signal that deep down we do not really trust God at all.

  Peter Enns

  Mirrors, Losing Control, Expectations

  Peter Enns (2014). “The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.

  George W. Bush

  Mom, War, Golf

  "Iraq Prompts President Bush to Give Up Golf". www.npr.org. May 16, 2008.

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• By choosing a woman to run for your nation's second highest office, you send a powerful signal to all Americans. There are no doors we cannot unlock. We will place no limits on achievement.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Running, Powerful, Doors

  Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 19 July 1984 at the Democratic National Convention, San Francisco

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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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• If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,-- One if by land, and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country-folk to be up and to arm.

  Paul Revere

  Country, Night, Sea

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• A high regard for the things of this world always signals a lowering regard for God.

  Beth Moore

  Christian, World, Regard

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• The message of frustration is an exciting signal. it means that your brain beleives you could be doing better than you currently are.

  Tony Robbins

  Mean, Frustration, Brain

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.310, Simon and Schuster

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