Syndromes Quotes - Page 9

• Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Humor, Race

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• The essence of the this-time-is-different syndrome is...rooted in the firmly held belief that financial crises are things that happen to other people in other countries at other times; crises do not happen to us, here and now. We are doing things better, we are smarter, we have learned from past mistakes. The old rules of valuation no longer apply. Unfortunately, a highly leveraged economy can unwittingly be sitting with its back at the edge of a financial cliff for many years before chance and circumstance provoke a crisis of confidence that pushes it off.

  Carmen Reinhart

  Country, Mistake, Past

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• Well the open-outcry auction is just made to turn the brain into mush: you've got social proof, the other guy is bidding, you get reciprocation tendency, you get deprival super-reaction syndrome, the thing is going away... I mean it just absolutely is designed to manipulate people into idiotic behavior.

  Charlie Munger

  Mean, People, Guy

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• From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Aspergers, Disorder

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• There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.

  Noam Chomsky

  Vietnam, Fabrication

  Interview with Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2004.

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• I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.

  Phil Hartman

  Glasses, Wigs, Noses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I woke up and didn't have Tourette's syndrome, it would feel weird - not better or worse, just different.

  Tim Howard

  Different, Tourettes, Feels

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• Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.

  Sally Phillips

  Children, Way, Conform

  "Down’s Son Is ‘Joy’ for Sally Phillips". The Lady Magazine Interview, www.express.co.uk. April 06, 2011.

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• [Madness] happened so frequently. I think what I was most maddest about - and it's in the book [Speaking Freely: A Memoir] - when the House and the Senate, back in 1984, were debating a bill that would - at least delay and maybe stop some of the ex - summary execution of disabled children - infants. And the Down syndrome kids and other kids had been, in some cases, routinely let die, to use the euphemism.

  Nat Hentoff

  Children, Book, Kids

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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