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“I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the syndrome of Stockholm is when you shift position and then you become like you're supposed to act, which is accepting the authority of those who have abducted you.”

Thinking Way Courses Accepting Example Position Like You Authority Prisoner Syndromes Submissive Pressured Stockholm

Author:Ingrid Betancourt

“If I use the word consciousness, in our lab, in our institute, what we mean is the special quality of mind, the special features that exist in the mind, that permit us to know, for example, that we, ourselves, exist, and that things exist around us.”

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Author:Antonio Damasio

“There are ways in which you can make that distinction objective to a certain degree. For example, by looking at responses that could be generated in the brain to exactly the same stimulus and there could be differences there.”

Way Certain Differences Brain Example Degrees Response Objectives Distinction Stimulus

Author:Antonio Damasio

“The emotion is the execution of a very complex program of actions. Some actions that are actually movements, like movement that you can do, change your face for example, in fear, or movements that are internal, that happen in your heart or in your gut, and movements that are actually not muscular movements, but rather, releases of molecules.”

Heart Happens Action Faces Can Do Emotion Example Movement Program Complexes Release Guts Internals Your Face Execution Molecules

Author:Antonio Damasio

“Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race.”

Social Race Class Example Bases Illness Gender Chemicals Norm Embedded Social Class

Author:Jonathan Michel Metzl

“I think that we're making a mistake if we don't see that there is a cultural basis to many illnesses, not just psychiatric ones. Breast cancer would be one prevalent example right now, different kind of cultures surrounding it. If you don't understand the cultural meaning of an illness like that you're going to miss the boat even if you're a great scientist.”

“When an English man speaks well, for example now, and this is another way of putting us down, they say he's "eloquent" you see. "Oh, eloquent chap they are!" An Irish person speak well, they say, "Ah, you have the gift of the gab." "Ah, you kissed the blarney stone." You see, all of this putting us down.”

Men Way Wells Persons Speak Example Stones Another Way Eloquent Chaps Blarney

Author:Malachy McCourt

“It used to be thought that only a certain kind of virus could get into our genome and it's called a retrovirus and that's a virus that might be HIV for example.”

Kind Might Used Certain Example Used To Be Viruses Hiv Genome

Author:Carl Zimmer

“The only kinds of ways we have to deal with viruses are old school, so vaccines for example are very effective, but the first vaccines were invented in the 1700's, so we're talking about technology that is over 200 years-old.”

Way Years Firsts Kind School Deals Talking Technology Example Viruses Vaccines Old School

Author:Carl Zimmer

“The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that they evolve very fast.”

Needs Years Hard Reason Fighting Example Evolve Viruses Flu

Author:Carl Zimmer

“I think I am example for our scene, so I have to be an example for the rest.”

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Author:Tiesto

“And she [Margaret Thatcher] also had a sort of a way, like a railroad train, of going, taking a breath and starting quite quietly and making a point in a way that you don't really know that this point is going to be made through several examples, and there will be not be a break in the speaking voice at any point.”

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Author:Meryl Streep

“For example, the use of chemical weapons [in Syria]- some on the Democrat side have said well, this encourages the North Koreans to use chemical weapons against our troops.”

Wells Said Use Sides Example Weapons Democrat Chemicals Troops Syria North Korea Korean Our Troops Chemical Weapons North Korean

Author:Rand Paul

“I've tended to find that myths of the near future give people the ability to really kind of explore the present, so say for example if look at William Gibson and his book Neuromancer or if you look at J.G. Ballard or Samuel Delaney those are probably three of my favorite writers in that genre.”

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Author:DJ Spooky

“Antarctica, one of the things that was so remarkable about it was that the ice itself is a kind of pure geometry, so say, for example, if I was facing someone wearing I don't know, a Joy Division t-shirt with the mountains on it or something like that.”

Ifs Knows Kind Joy Example Pure Mountain Ice Shirts Remarkable Division T Shirt Geometry Antarctica Joy Division

Author:DJ Spooky

“Whales, for example, also navigate with sound, but they're now beginning to be beached because the ocean is getting too noisy. Weird things like that. I mean this is very real. Like, if you look at the satellites in the sky at night you know it's an eerie sense of we're.”

Ifs Knows Looks Mean Real Night Sound Sky Example Ocean Whales Noisy Navigate Satellites Weird Things Eerie

Author:DJ Spooky

“A lot of ambitious code has been written into the law for those and we will have to see if it actually works, if we have another example of a big financial institution going bankrupt.”

Ifs Has Beens Bigs Law Written Example Institutions Financial Code Ambitious Financial Institutions

Author:Robert F. Engle

“[Freud's] great strength, though sometimes also his weakness, was the quite extraordinary respect he had for the singular fact... When he got hold of a simple but significant fact he would feel, and know, that it was an example of something general or universal, and the idea of collecting statistics on the matter was quite alien to him.”

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Book:The life and work of Sigmund Freud

Source: The life and work of Sigmund Freud

“Isn't this the perfect image of the noblest selflessness, and thereby presents an example and a model? It should be inspiring: like them, we are the units of a great social body, like them, we can serve and contemplate death with equanimity, subordinating our individual consciousness to collective consciousness.”

Should Body Individual Social Perfect Consciousness Sacrifice Example Models Collectives Contemplating Units Selflessness Equanimity Collective Consciousness

Author:Leo Errera

“We learn as much by others' failings as by their teachings. Examples of imperfection is just as useful for achieving perfection as are models of competence and perfection.”

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Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“I will stress once again that we do not know the source from which the UFOs or the alien beings come whether or not, for example, they originate in the physical universe as modern astrophysics has described it). But they manifest in the physical world and bring about definable consequences in that domain.”

Knows World Universe Modern Example Source Consequence Stress Aliens Manifest Domain Ufo Astrophysics

Author:Jacques Vallee

“If you haven’t already clearly defined your values, you may find yourself making choices that conflict with what you want. If, for example, honesty is a big thing for you, but you hang out with liars, there’s a conflict. When your actions conflict with your values, you’ll end up unhappy, frustrated, and despondent. In fact, psychologists tell us that nothing creates more stress than when our actions and behaviors aren’t congruent with our values.”

“The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).”

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Author:Bryan Q. Miller

“Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems. Books can, for example, give you ideas. I don't know if you've ever had an idea before, but, if you have, you know how much trouble an idea can get you into.”

Ifs Knows Giving Kind Book Ideas Problem Causes Know How Trouble Example Harm All Kinds

Author:Pseudonymous Bosch

“A moment of kindness can produce a mood of harmony between heaven and earth. Purity of heart can leave a fine example for a hundred generations.”

Heart Moments Earth Heaven Kindness Generations Example Produce Fine Hundred Harmony Mood Purity Taoism Heaven And Earth

Author:Zicheng Hong

“There is much meaning in the word endure. For example, when dealing with unstable human feelings and uneven pathways in life, without endurance to hold you up, you may fall into a pit in the brush.”

Humans May Feelings Fall Example Endure Taoism Endurance Brushes Pits Pathways Unstable

Author:Zicheng Hong

“I think heroes are important in the lives of kids because it shows a child what to become, it shows a child what's possible; it shows a child not just by theory but by active example.”

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Author:John Assaraf

“You don't become a hero by choosing to become a hero. You become a hero by becoming an example, by being an example for what's possible, for being an example for one person.”

Persons Example Becoming Hero

Author:John Assaraf

“We don't have a caucus, because we differ on so many views. Some of us are pro-choice, some are not. We'll take the issue of drilling, for example: Lisa Murkowski would want to drill in ANWAR, Maria Cantwell, Barbara Boxer, and most of us would say no, and so we don't. But we get together once a month for dinner, and we have three rules: no memos, no staff, and no leaks; and we get together for friendship. In fact, we're having a dinner tonight. We just have drinks and talk about life and times.”

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Author:Barbara Mikulski

“I would say George Mitchell was like Clark Kent sometimes with his horn rimmed glasses and his very quiet manner. People say, well, he's just a quiet leader, but then he emerges as super hero and begins to move this legislation. He led by example.”

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Author:Barbara Mikulski

“If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that there was torture and pain in their work, but there was also dignity in the way that was dealt with. So I don't buy this contemporary notion that the only way to be artistic is to be arrogant, offensive or immoral.”

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Author:Tariq Ramadan

“There are certain things that we cannot understand, like why we pray five times a day, for example. But the fact that we choose to pray is understandable.”

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Author:Tariq Ramadan

“There is the philosophy embedded in the culture we are living. It is quite clear for example that Arabs have a different culture than Malaysians.”

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Author:Tariq Ramadan

“Unfortunately there are some trends that are changing this but you don't have for example as strict and narrow understanding of the relationship between men and women. And then there is the philosophy we have to extract in the relationship between text and culture.”

Men Philosophy Culture Understanding Example Men And Women Trends Strict

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“The nature of the state is one thing, but there are other major challenges - what it will take to tackle the issues of social corruption, for example, social justice, and the economic system - and what are the future challenges when it comes to equality between the citizens, in particular in the field of the job market and equal opportunity for men and for women? This is at the centre of the question that is the Arab Awakening.”

“And, for example, like, when you're having the conversation with your child about getting their driver's license. Well, a white family - their biggest fear is just that you're driving safely and that they're minding the rules of the road, whereas a black family - their biggest fear is that their child is going to get pulled over and treated unfairly for a reason that they won't understand.”

Wells Children Reason Black White Example Conversation Our Children Driving Treated Your Children Drivers License Biggest Fear Black Family Treated Unfairly

Author:Regina King

“[Barack] Obama, for example, he has not given up on cap-and-trade. Now, he has not been able to pass cap-and-trade, but cap-and-trade is all about redistribution of wealth in a global basis - taking money out of this country and giving it to third-world countries on the other end of the ocean. And that is redistribution of wealth in a global basis. It's fundamental Marxism.”

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Author:Rafael Cruz

“I am of the opinion, and have been for a long time, that any kind of big technological move is almost always positive in the short term but inevitably somewhat negative in the long term. And I think there are many examples of this in every possible context.”

Thinking Kind Long Has Beens Bigs Moving Term Opinion Example Long Time Negative Long Term Technological Short Term

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“The thing that scares me most is the shift from serving the people to exercising power and with it, this attendant narcissism. Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention.”

People Attention Example Exercise Sake Serving Pot Scare Narcissism Palin

Author:Rosanne Cash

“Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention. No vision, no critical thinking, no backup to her statements. Just to incite little riots everywhere and capitalize upon it financially. To me, she is a microcosm of the ultimate cynicism in American politics.”

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Author:Rosanne Cash

“[Charles] Darwin, for example, is the one who made us face the fact that the primary way we tell the Christ story doesn't work anymore.”

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Author:John Shelby Spong

“You need to identify the values that come out of that kind of belief system, because I don't see them. All the polls I look at say, for example, that adultery is committed as much in the Bible Belt as in any other part of the country. The same goes for abortion, child abuse, spouse abuse or murder.”

Needs Looks Kind Children Country Values Belief Example Abuse Murder Committed Abortion Child Abuse Spouse Polls Belts Adultery Belief Systems

Author:John Shelby Spong

“Since life on Earth is, so far, the only known example of life in the universe, our dilemma may simply be that we have no other examples to compare us with. If we did, then the life/non-life transition might look downright simple to us.”

Ifs Looks May Might Earth Universe Simple Known Example Compare Transition Dilemma

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I wanted to deliver the emotions a man feels when he's in love. For example, through song "GG BE," I wanted to the express the feelings of being deceived by a woman (the song also contains the woman's counterargument).”

Men Feels Feelings Wanted Song Emotion Example Deceived Being Deceived Counterarguments

Author:Seungri

“You look at the world situation, look at London, Paris, Italy, it is all basically the same as the U.S. Then you look at other places such as India, Bali, with warmer climates, you know the Southern climates, they are very different. I think there is a time and place for everything and in Australia, for example, it is completely the opposite. I don't think we can be designing for that customer per se.”

Thinking Knows World Looks Different Situation Example Design Opposites India Climate Customers London Paris Australia Southern Bali

Author:Donna Karan

“There have been so many examples of highly qualified judges of enormous integrity who lost their positions because they were in fact disabled from speaking out to defend a controversial opinion.”

Has Beens Facts Lost Opinion Example Position Judging Integrity Enormous Qualified Disabled Controversial Speaking Out

Author:Deborah Rhode

“Do you think Bernie Sanders, for example, is citing Theodore Roosevelt as the progenitor of his critique of the banks when actually Roosevelt wanted to keep the banks together and regulate them.”

Thinking Wanted Together Example Critique Citing Theodore

Author:Jeffrey Rosen

“I think the structures of exclusion are more systematically built up in American society, for example, so that young girls interested in science eventually lose their confidence over time. The structures of exclusion work against them. We have other structures of exclusion in India, but not around modern scientific knowledge.”

Thinking Young Girl Loses Modern Example Built India Structure Exclusion American Society Scientific Knowledge

Author:Vandana Shiva

“For example, the idea that objects have properties out there in fixed ways is an incorrect idea about the world. Properties are created through relationships and processes. They are not inherent in electrons or photons or quanta any more than they are inherent in soil or trees or people. So my critique of reductionistic science is a critique that I have inherited from my scientific training. But it has been deepened by my experiences as an ecologist, in seeing the ecological destruction taking place today.”

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Author:Vandana Shiva

“There is now a patent restricting the use of an herb called philantis neruri for curing jaundice. An even more blatant example is the use of turmeric for healing wounds, which is something every mother and grandmother does in every home in India. Now the Mississippi Medical Center claims to have "invented" the capacity of turmeric to heal wounds.”

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Author:Vandana Shiva

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