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• People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive cataclysm of the soul.

  David Brooks

  People, Soldier, Soul

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• It is cruel and insensitive to interpret an affair as a symptom of sickness in the relationship, as it leaves the 'cheated-on' partner - who may already be feeling insecure - to wonder what is wrong with him Many people have sex outside their primary relationships for reasons that have nothing to do with any inadequacy in their partner or in the relationship.

  Dossie Easton

  Sex, Insecure, People

  Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt (1997). “The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities”, Greenery Press (CA)

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• Look to the present. The great disease of 'I will be happy when ...' is sweeping the world. You know the symptoms. You start thinking: I'll be happy when I get that ... BMW ... promotion ... status ... money. The only way to cure the disease is to find happiness and meaning now.

  Marshall Goldsmith

  Thinking, Bmw, Looks

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• Then the question began to live under my blankets: How did lesbianism begin? What were the symptoms? The public library gave information on the finished lesbian--and that woefully sketchy--but on the growth of a lesbian, there was nothing. I did discover that the difference between hermaphrodites and lesbians was that hermaphrodites were "born that way." It was impossible to determine whether lesbians budded gradually, or burst into being with a suddenness that dismayed them as much as it repelled society.

  Maya Angelou

  Differences, Growth, Library

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• At a certain age, we have already been struck by love; it no longer develops alone, according to its own mysteries and fateful laws while our hearts stand by startled and passive. We come to its assistanceRecognizing one of its symptoms, we recall, we bring back to life the others. Since we possess its song engraved in its totality within us, we do not need for a woman to tell us the beginning--filled with admiration inspired by beauty--to find the continuation.

  Marcel Proust

  Song, Heart, Law

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• There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand, there have started into life industrial and scientific forces which no epoch of former human history had ever suspected. On the other hand, there exist symptoms of decay, far surpassing the horrors recorded of the latter times of the Roman empire. In our days everything seems pregnant with its contrary.

  Karl Marx

  Party, Hands, Decay

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.368, Oxford University Press, USA

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• [T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The horse leech's daughter is a closed system. Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Daughter, Horse

  Samuel Beckett (2011). “Murphy”, p.36, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty.

  Novalis

  Clever, Opponents, Way

  "Pollen and Fragments". Book by Novalis. Fragment No. 105, 1798.

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• American Christians have been woefully silent on important issues. I am an American citizens now, and I love this country, but I see symptoms in the United States that I saw in Austria in 1938 when the Nazi Germans were terrorizing Europe.

  Maria von Trapp

  Christian, Country, Religious

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• Part of what makes a situation traumatic is not talking about it. Talking reduces trauma symptoms. When we don't talk about trauma, we remain emotionally illiterate. Our most powerful feelings go unnamed and unspoken.

  Tian Dayton

  Powerful, Talking, Silence

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• Food banking as well as other antihunger programs do a good job of managing poverty by alleviating its worst symptom, hunger.

  Mark Winne

  Jobs, Banking, Poverty

  "Outlook: The Futility of Food Banks". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2007.

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• The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Compassion, Gun, People

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• I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die.

  Suzanne Somers

  Doctors, Giving, Doing Nothing

  Interview with Cheri Sicard, fabulousfoods.com. August 06, 2007.

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• Marijuana is effective at relieving nausea and vomiting, spasticity, appetite loss, certain types of pain, and other debilitating symptoms. And it is extraordinarily safe - safer than most medicines prescribed every day. If marijuana were a new discovery rather than a well-known substance carrying cultural and political baggage, it would be hailed as a wonder drug.

  Lester Grinspoon

  Pain, Loss, Marijuana

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• I would feel so guilty about lying that I would try to stress myself out and work up a headache so I wouldn't have the guilt of not having a bit of the symptom.

  Justin Long

  Stress, Lying, Guilt

  Interview with Fred Topel, www.cinemablend.com. August 14, 2006.

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• I have come to rely on Ed Welch and others at CCEF for guidance and insight in better understanding the issues of the soul that plague many people today. For those who want to address more than just the symptoms of depression, Ed's counsel is invaluable.

  Bob Lepine

  Issues, People, Understanding

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• It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell-tale symptom after another like some awful, hellish flower.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sad, Breakup, Flower

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• We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak. The people who were around the patient are now being identified and traced by the CDC and by the state health authorities. ... you get people, you identify them, and you observe and monitor them daily to determine if they develop symptoms If they do, then you put them under isolation to determine if, in fact, they are infected. And if you do that properly, you can shut down any outbreak.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Ebola, People, Facts

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• Every person must live the inner life in one form or another. Consciously or unconsciously, voluntarily or involuntarily, the inner world will claim us and exact its dues. If we go to that realm consciously, it is by our inner work: our prayers, meditations, dream work, ceremonies, and Active Imagination. If we try to ignore the inner world, as most of us do, the unconscious will find its way into our lives through pathology: our psychosomatic symptoms, compulsions, depressions, and neuroses.

  Robert A. Johnson

  Dream, Prayer, Imagination

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• Worry is not the symptom of a problematic life; it's the problem. Situations pass that make our life difficult, it's the worry that stay's with us that makes us ultimately unhappy.

  Garrison Wynn

  Worry, Unhappy, Problem

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• Addiction is a symptom of not growing up.

  C.C. DeVille

  Growing Up, Addiction, Growing

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• It is a common thing for people to begin to lean in the direction of recovery, only to stop and take score too soon. And when they still find unwanted symptoms or conditions, they then offer resistant thought and lose the improved ground they have gained. With consistent releasing of resistance, all unwanted conditions will subside, returning you to your natural state of Well-Being.

  Esther Hicks

  Healing, Recovery, People

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• We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any soul speak up in favor of the obvious, it is taken as a symptom of the influence of the left, the right, the pink, the black, the dangerous. An idea for its own sake - especially an obvious idea - has no respectability.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Taken, Ideas, Soul

  Cynthia Ozick (1983). “Art & ardor: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.

  Richard Asher

  Sympathy, Expression, Smooth

  A Sense of Asher p. 86. Pitman Medical, UK (1972)

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• There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Struggle, Roots, Discipline

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