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“All beginnings are involuntary.”

Involuntary

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“It was involuntary. They sank my boat.”

War Peace History Boat Involuntary

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need to replenish themselves with oxygen. So you laugh, you breathe, the blood runs, and everything is circulating. If you dont laugh, youll die.”

Ifs Needs Running Song Dies Laughing Blood Singing Breathe Rolling Oxygen Lungs Explosions Elderly Involuntary Rolling Along

Author:Mel Brooks

“The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels”

Body House Secret Movement Machines Chemicals Marvelous Laboratory Involuntary

Author:Theodor Herzl

“When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to achieve to involuntary servitude. To liberals, compassion seems to be defined by how many people are dependent on the government; to conservatives, it's defined by how many people no longer need help. One promotes dependence, the other freedom, responsibility and achievement.”

“The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.”

Character Spirit Ethics Medicine Treatment Odds Involuntary Psychiatric

Book:The Loony-bin Trip

Source: The Loony-bin Trip

“Jesus teaches the redistribution of wealth - as long as the transfer is voluntary. But he is adamantly opposed to the involuntary redistribution of wealth, because that violates the moral law of God and is profoundly wrong. His words to take care of the poor are not addressed to government, they are addressed to us.”

Long Government Care Law Jesus Wealth Poor Moral Teach Take Care Transfers Involuntary Moral Law Redistribution Of Wealth

Author:Bryan Fischer

“Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it”

Problem Standards Commitment Slavery Slave Psychological Psychiatry Psychiatrist Abolish Involuntary Refining Psychiatric Plantations

Author:Thomas Szasz

“Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.”

Has Beens Art Conscious Dancing Dance Observation Works Of Art Transformed Motor Rite Discharge Involuntary

Author:Jamake Highwater

“The person senses what it feels like to be free from inhibitions. At the same time he feels connected and integrated – with his body and, through his body, with his environment. He has a sense of well-being and inner peace. He gains the knowledge that the life of the body resides in its involuntary aspect. […] Unfortunately these beautiful feelings do not always hold up under the stress of daily living in our modern culture. The pace, the pressure and the philosophy of our times are antithetical to life.”

“For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully-illuminated life.”

Years Soul Moving Literature Consciousness Cry Impression Mediums Appeals Remembered Kindred Involuntary

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“No one...can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a seepage. Becoming someone else or worse: becoming nothing but the vibratory field between two people.”

People Two States Loss Forever Fields Becoming Empathy Terror Involuntary Receptivity Becoming Someone Becoming Someone Else

Author:Chris Kraus

“INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.”

Mind Causes Influence Effects Performances Intention Involuntary

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.”

Art Today Artist Order Capacity Tasks Chaos Productivity Artistic Involuntary

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“All emotion is involuntary when genuine.”

Emotion Genuine Involuntary

Book:Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910

Source: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910

“Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by the overwhelming sensation of truth proximity. Visionarism. State of awe.”

States Certain Understanding Pleasure Brain Intellectual Intense Muscles Awe Sensations Overwhelming Topics Exhilarating Nouns Proximity Involuntary Contractions

Author:Jason Silva

“Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.”

May Fall Falling In Love Improbable Involuntary

Book:Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

Source: Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“Although it has been a carefully guarded secret by the watchdogs of the mainstream media, eugenics programs were never discontinued worldwide, with involuntary sterilization programs continuing in many countries to this day.”

Has Beens Country Secret Media Program This Day Mainstream Continuing Eugenics Guarded Involuntary Mainstream Media Sterilization

Book:Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness

Source: Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness

“SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.”

Kind Made Strong Change Taken Environment Cutting Stones Fishes Delicate Fabric Coarse Involuntary

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“And, like poor Phaedra, we fall in love not with who we want to fall in love with, but with one who moves us, and sometimes it is the last person we should fall in love with. Our involuntary choice is not always the right one, and sometimes it is actually the worst one, hence our suffering. And then, of course, there is the completely different situation of the loving people where, over the years, the love they once felt for each other fades and they can't go on. They feel their love dying, but are unable to bring it back to life.”

“All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind”

Wind Degrees Responsible Doom Involuntary

Book:The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings

Source: The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings

“Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.”

Knows States Reason Brain Knowing Function Arise Certainty Mechanism Like Love Involuntary

Book:On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not

Source: On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not

“Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.”

Kind Has Beens Philosophy Clear Memoir Unconscious Confession Involuntary Great Philosophy

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.”

Men Helping Seems Subjects Perfection Organization Cruelty Involuntary Deafness Fallibility Unable To Help

Author:John Cheever

“Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any culture, community, or country ... [It] is an affront to our values and our commitment to human rights.”

Humans Country Values Culture Community Rights Modern Crime Commitment Labor Slavery Human Rights Servitude Involuntary Affront Modern Slavery

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his broad horizon and degrades him to the level of a mechanic.”

Science Levels Serious Conscious Workers Horizon Broads Spheres Mechanic Degrade Involuntary Investigators

Book:Ideas and Opinions

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.”

Thinking Prayer Interesting One Thing Involuntary Fruitful Life

Author:Mary Oliver

“It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.”

Source: Anatomy of Criticism

“Eros is not tranquil-it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.”

Giving Feels Feelings Fall Expression Constant Falling In Love Affair Impulse Love Affair Wellbeing Tranquil Eros Involuntary

Author:François Lelord

“The evidence here, as elsewhere, suggests that education is certainly relevant, but more because better education is associated with general differences in patterns of life than because discrete parts of a lifestyle can be changed. Health-change policies which focus entirely on the individual may be ineffective not only because exposure to health risks is largely involuntary, but also, as this study has shown, because of unwarranted assumptions about the extent to which behaviour can, in these circumstances, be effective in improving health.”

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