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• I didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty, war, environmental crisis. If we can identify the root cause, we can change our ways.

  Tom Shadyac

  War, Believe, Hunger Poverty

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• Read Mann's notes, which contain precise accounts of cholera and its symptoms, and observe how careful he is throughout his fiction in getting medical details straight - then you might begin to wonder whether cholera is the only candidate for the cause of Aschenbach's death. What results from this, I think, is a deeper appreciation of Mann's brilliance in keeping so many possibilities in play. The ambiguity is even more artful than people have realized.

  Philip Kitcher

  Appreciation, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.

  Storm Jameson

  War, Growth, Committees

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.13, A&C Black

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• Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles there little fancy on every occasion, it never enters the great and good mind but on the strongest motives; nor is it then a welcome guest,--affording only an uneasy sensation, and bringing always with it a mixture of concern and compassion.

  Henry Fielding

  Heart, Mean, Compassion

  Henry Fielding (1916). “The Works of Henry Fielding”, p.299, Library of Alexandria

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• Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.

  Agnes Repplier

  Love Is, Patient, Common

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• To something that looks very different. The thing to understand here is that Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, they're not the disease and they're not the symptom of the disease. They are the beta test of a cure for the perspective of the people.

  Ben Domenech

  People, Perspective, Different

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I am such a notorious hermit - almost pathological. And, I'm not a hoarder. But that's just a symptom of things that I do feel.

  Sally Field

  Notorious, Hermits, Feels

  "We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.

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• War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

  Alfred Hermann Fried

  War, Anarchy, International

  Alfred Hermann Fried (1918*). “International Co-operation”

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• The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.

  Grover Norquist

  Government, Goal, Focus

  "Grover Norquist: 'The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit'". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. March 9, 2011.

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• We can try to reform healthcare, but the fact is if we don't have a healthy food source, we are only treating the symptoms and not the problems.

  Daphne Oz

  Healthy, Trying, Reform

  Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It was long assumed that heart disease manifested the same in men and women. But Dr. Legato found that men may experience the classic symptoms of chest pain that radiates down the left arm. Women often have symptoms including shortness of breath, nausea or vomiting, and back or jaw pain. A gender-neutral approach left many women under-diagnosed and under-treated and as a result many women died needlessly.

  Jed Diamond

  Pain, Heart, Men

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• My own work on depression demonstrated that men and women often have different symptoms, with males often becoming more irritable, angry, and aggressive when they are depressed, while women show the more inward symptoms such as sadness, helplessness, and hopelessness.

  Jed Diamond

  Sadness, Men, Becoming

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Shame is the proper reaction when one has purposefully violated the accepted behavior of society. Inflicting it is etiquette's response when its rules are disobeyed. The law has all kinds of nasty ways of retaliating when it is disregarded, but etiquette has only a sense of social shame to deter people from treating others in ways they know are wrong. So naturally Miss Manners wants to maintain the sense of shame. Some forms of discomfort are fully justified, and the person who feels shame ought to be dealing with removing its causes rather than seeking to relieve the symptoms.

  Judith Martin

  Law, People, Missing

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• That so much of our experience, or the stereotype which passes for it should be dealt with by means of the short story is perhaps a symptom not unnoticeable elsewhere in the public domain of an unlovely cynicism about human character.

  Howard Nemerov

  Mean, Character, Stories

  Howard Nemerov (1993). “A Howard Nemerov Reader”, p.186, University of Missouri Press

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• Plant medicine does not just improve symptoms; it approaches healing the whole of the body - as opposed to Western medicine, which may just approach the symptom.

  Karen Rose

  Healing, Plant Medicine, Doe

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• The basic cause of all our difficulties is immaturity. That's why I talk so much about peace within ourselves as a step toward peace in our world. If we were mature, war would not be possible and peace would be assured. In our immaturity we do not know the laws of the universe, and we think evil can be overcome by more evil. One symptom of our immaturity is greed, making it difficult for us to learn the simple lesson of sharing.

  Peace Pilgrim

  War, Simple, Thinking

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• Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kind, Mental Illness, Tradition

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• Our physiology creates disease to give us feedback, to let us know we have an unbalanced perspective, or we're not being loving and grateful. So the body's signs and symptoms are not something terrible.

  John Frederick Demartini

  Grateful, Giving, Perspective

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• One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

  Robert Silverberg

  Extravagance, Defining, Nonsensical

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• What we refer to as 'death' is just a set of symptoms that have proven resistant to treatment.

  Ralph Merkle

  Treatment, Proven

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• Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.

  Emily Dickinson

  Communication, Perfect, Silence

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• [...] homosexuality should be seen in broader terms: as arrested development caused by confusion over sexual identity, resulting in inability to bond permanently with a member of the opposite sex and (usually) establish a family. The main symptom of this disorder is the pursuit of impersonal sex for its own sake (i.e. promiscuity).

  Henry Makow

  Sex, Opposites, Confusion

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• You, and in fact quite a lot of your generation, have in some way been exiled from that particular sanctuary. It's become almost impossible for someone to "go mad" in the classical sense. At one time people conveniently "went mad" and were never heard from again. Like a character in a romantic novel. But now you are too hip to yourself on a psychological level. You all are too intimate with too many of the symptoms of insanity to be caught completely off your guard.

  Ken Kesey

  Character, People, Mad

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• Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Long, Honor

  Thomas Carlyle (1897). “History of Friedrich the Second: Called Frederick the Great”

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• Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Thinking, Yesterday

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

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