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• A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Money, Men, Views

  "Money And Class In America: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion" by Lewis H. Lapham, 1989.

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• Compulsive eating is only the symptom; believing that you are not worth your own love is the problem. Go for the love. You will never be sorry.

  Geneen Roth

  Sorry, Love You, Believe

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Apr 08, 2012

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• Married women are far more depressed than married men - in unhappy marriages, three times more; and - interestingly - in happy marriages, five times more. In truth, it is men who are thriving in marriage, now as always, and who show symptoms of psychological and physical distress outside it. Not only their emotional well-being but their very lives, some studies say, depend on being married!

  Dalma Heyn

  Marriage, Men, Emotional

  Dalma Heyn (2011). “Marriage Shock: The Transformation of Women into Wives”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.

  Mason Cooley

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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• The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Differences, Evil, Sin

  Malcolm Gladwell (2009). “What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures”, p.140, Hachette UK

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• The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation of writing skills and reading comprehension; an alarming increase of packaged language (cliches used in speeches, canned messages); and a general tendency to substitute visual media (especially television and video) for written language.

  Mihai Nadin

  Reading, Writing, Media

  Mihai Nadin (1997). “The Civilization of Illiteracy”, p.17, Dresden University Press

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• As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions. Although I understand many believe marijuana is the most effective drug in combating their medical ailments, I would caution against this assumption due to the lack of consistent, repeatable scientific data available to prove marijuana's benefits. Based on current evidence, I believe that marijuana is a dangerous drug and that there are less dangerous medicines offering the same relief from pain and other medical symptoms.

  Bill Frist

  Pain, Believe, Marijuana

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• The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share, that people can be reached, that people can be touched and even in some cases changed. So many of the things in our world lead us to despair. It seems to me that the final symptom of despair is silence, and that storytelling is one of the sustaining arts; it’s one of the affirming arts. A writer may have a certain pessimism in his outlook, but the very act of being a writer seems to me to be an optimistic act.

  Tobias Wolff

  Art, Writing, Optimistic

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• The physical symptoms of fight or flight are what the human body has learned over thousands of years to operate efficiently and at the highest level...anxiety is a cognitive interpretation of that physical response.

  John Eliot

  Fighting, Light, Years

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• Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation.

  Peter Drucker

  Success, Stress, Creativity

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.36, Routledge

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• The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Dollars, Withdrawal

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• Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

  Peter Drucker

  Organization, Committees, Meetings

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• A lack of money is never, ever, ever a problem. A lack of money is merely a symptom of what is going on underneath.

  T. Harv Eker

  Money, Secret, Problem

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 23, 2014

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• When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don't know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet.

  Rajneesh

  Home, Self, Meditation

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• Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Time, Discovery, Perfect

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• Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but a cry from suffering organs.

  Jean-Martin Charcot

  Health, Fitness Motivational, Reality

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• 'Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but nevertheless used the word in a way fitting in with the usual symptoms and presuppositions of pain'-in short he uses it as we all do. Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Pain, Memories, Moving

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• The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are the beginning of its cure. The fact that they are unwanted makes them all the more a phenomenon of grace — a gift of God, a message from the unconscious.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Self, Long

  "The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth".

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• Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

  Alexander Pope

  Dying, Famous Last Words, Hundred

  To George, Lord Lyttelton, 15 May 1744, in Joseph Spence 'Anecdotes' (ed. J. Osborn, 1966) no. 637

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• Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body. It may be an abnormality of temperament or form (structure). Symptom is a manifestation of some abnormal state in the body. It may be harmful as a colic pain or harmless as the flushing of cheeks in peripneumonia.

  Avicenna

  Pain, Health, Abnormal

  Avicenna (1999). “The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb)”, Abjad Book Designers & Builders

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• The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is merely an argument that may be convincing to some people who don't know anything about nuclear weapons. I don't find that argument very credible, I'm not sure that people who make it even believe in it. But it's a good argument to make if you have no other argument to make. The fact of the matter is, Iran has been around for 3000 years, and that is not a symptom of a suicidal instinct.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Lying, Believe, Suicidal

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• Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Blessing, Boredom, Safe

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• A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form ... this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive.

  E. M. Forster

  Running, Views, Long

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• Forget about every other lesson in the book. You have to be able to tap your foot or else none of what you doing you are not gonna have any control of your symptom.

  Al Di Meola

  Book, Player, Guitar

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• I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If you consider your work very important you should take a day off.

  Bertrand Russell

  Success, Teaching, Important

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