A Quotes
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“Altitude can give you a bad attitude.”
“Altitude hypersensitivity had me in a permanent state of chronic mountain sickness at 2,400 feet in Tucson until I moved to near sea level.”
Source: Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue
“Altitude Hypersensitivity is an emerging medical condition in the global population.”
“Altitude Hypersensitivity is treated by living well below the Altitude Hypersensitivity trigger threshold and taking specific nutritional supplements.”
“Altitude induced suicide in high altitude areas is very well understood.”
Source: Toxic Altitude
“Altitude Sickness in humans has different classifications.”
Source: Toxic Altitude
“Altitude sickness is a poorly defined sickness.”
Source: Toxic Altitude
“Altitude sickness is gonna put the screws on you.”
“Altitude sickness is known to develop in some people just above 4,900 feet and police officers should be screened to see how low it is occurring in them. A sea level adapted police officer with altitude sickness should be removed from duty and returned to sea level for recovery, regardless of how low it is occurring. Police officers that are repeatedly experiencing altitude sickness should be reassigned to sea level duty.”
“Altitude sickness symptoms increase the longer time is spent above the Altitude Hypersensitivity trigger threshold.”
“Altitude sickness, unregulated drugs and medical gas enabled workers to become drug abusers/addicts”
“Altitude testing after treating for Lysinuric Protein Intolerance revealed a much more tolerant body to altitude hypersensitivity.”
Source: Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue
“Altitude tourism is a relatively new activity for the masses.”
Source: Toxic Altitude
“Altizer distinguishes between melancholy as a condition marked principally by a sense of guilt, even a delirium of guilt, and the contemporary manifestation of depression or apathy, from which guilt is totally absent.”
Source: Melancholy and the Otherness of God: A Study in the Genealogy, Hermeneutics, and Therapeutics of Depression
“Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.”
“Alto (saxophone) is just a very hard instrument; there's so few people that play it really well. I feel it's the best one, too, now. At first I didn't feel that way; I wanted to be a tenor player. It took a long time for me to feel that alto was the most expressive of the saxophones.”
“Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling. As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway.”
“Altogether forty-five Emperors had claimed the Spear of Destiny as their possession between the coronation in Rome of Charlemagne and the fall of the old German Empire exactly a thousand years later. And what a pagentry it was! THe Spear had passed like the very finger of destiny through the millenium forever creating new patterns of fate which had again and again changed the entire history of Europe. ... According to the legend associated with the Spear of Longinus, the claimant to this talisman of power has a choice between the service of two opposing Spirits in the fulfilment of his world historic aims -- a Good and an Evil Spirit.”
Source: The Spear of Destiny
“Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike.”
“Altogether, I had derived little benefit from being in Balbec, for which reason I was all the more determined to come back one day. I felt I had spent too short a time there.”
Source: In the shadow of young girls in flower
“Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.”
Source: My Life on the Road
“Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“Altogether too many sheep”
“Altogether, Cavalry operations are exceedingly difficult, knowledge of the country is absolutely necessary, and ability to comprehend the situation at a glance, and an audacious spirit, are everything.”
Source: Reveries on the Art of War
“Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.”
Source: Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
“Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.”
“Alton shifted so he could talk to the man. He'd been to earth before and watched some of the silly shows, the ones where one cop would play the good guy and the other the bad buy. Ena was definitely the bad dragon in this scenario, her eyes glowing bright green, threatening, a little bit of smoke coming out of her nostrils. She was fire breathing mad.”
Source: Hawk Fae
“altoos de waerheid te zeggen, al most het hem uit zen schoen doen springen”
“Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony”
“Altri hanno compiuto questo atto di volontà in tempi infelici prima d’ora e hanno sempre avuto ragione, in un modo o nell’altro si sono liberati, la loro infelicità non è durata in eterno, anche se può essere durata tutto il tempo che gli era stato concesso.”
Source: Il racconto dell'Ancella
“Altri si vantino dei libri che hanno scritto, io mi glorio di quelli che ho letto.”
“Altro che video degli orsi polari senza pelo e dei ghiacci che si scioglievano. La birra avrebbe salvato il mondo!”
Source: Uno di noi
“Altro diletto che imparar non provo.”
“Altro io non sono che la schiava
del mio ardente desiderio per te...
Chi per questo mi biasima è sicuro
che sia giusto il suo giudizio?”
Source: Le Mille e una Notte: Volume Primo; Volume 1 of 2
“Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.”
Source: Silverthorn
“Altruism became the sole legitimate motivation for giving a kidney. And it is a partial - I say a partial failure.”
“Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.”
Source: Ayn Rand Reader
“Altruism demands that an individual serve others, but doesn’t stipulate whether those others should be one’s family, or the homeless, or society as a whole. Collectivism states that, in politics, society comes first and the individual must obey. Collectivism is the application of the altruist ethics to politics.”
“Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of virtues to flaws, of ability to incompetence, of progress to stagnation-and the subordinating of all life and of all values to the claims of anyone's suffering.”
Source: Ayn Rand Reader
“Altruism, generosity, solidarity and civic spirit are not like commodities that are depleted with use. They are more like muscles that develop and grow stronger with exercise. One of the defects of a market-driven society is that it lets these virtues languish. To renew our public life we need to exercise them more strenuously.”
Source: What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
“Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all sorts of signals as its individual self, choose to give up its life in aid of someone else?”
Source: Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony
“Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“Altruism is a brief phase through which some adolescents must pass. It is rather like acne. Happily, as with acne, only a few are permanently scarred.”
Source: Point to Point Navigation
“Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think a crime. It's where we could live. I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has. --Mon Semblable”
Source: New and Selected Poems 1974-1994
“Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.”
“Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.”
“Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.”
Source: The Forge of God
“Altruism is never pure or absolute. We do good because it makes us feel good. If it didn't feel good, we wouldn't do good.”
Source: 99 Quotes and Affirmations For Self-Love & Personal Development
“Altruism is not a moral or religious ideal, no matter what some people might tell you. It is an essential, biological part of who or what we are as a species.”
Source: Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation