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It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
Harold W. Dodds
Best
Old
Insecurity
Our
Way
Secure
Never
Safe
Force
Spur
Old Adage
Us
Requires
Each
Each One
Adage
Keep in mind that there are many neurotoxins in the world. Dozens of natural and industrial substances have neurotoxic properties.
Harvey V. Fineberg
Natural
World
Mind
Properties
Industrial
Substances
Many
Keep
Dozens
Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary point of view, you and I are like the booster rockets designed to send the genetic payload into the next level of orbit and then drop off into the sea.
Harvey V. Fineberg
You
Generation
Drop
Adapting
Booster
Evolution
Evolutionary
About
Point
Point Of View
Through
Genetic
Like
Genome
Passing
Rockets
Off
Surviving
Send
Orbit
After
Then
Next
Next Generation
Next Level
View
Sea
Level
Designed
The emergency care Americans receive can fall short of what they expect and deserve.
Harvey V. Fineberg
Care
Fall
Emergency
Expect
American
Short
Deserve
Receive
Autism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by social withdrawal, by repetitive behaviors and by some kind of focal attention in its classic form. Basically, it's an inability to relate to others.
Harvey V. Fineberg
Autism
Relate
Others
Severe
Focal
Characterized
Kind
Classic
Some
Attention
Withdrawal
Repetitive
Behaviors
Form
Inability
Social
Disorder
Basically
We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much higher premium on the prevention of chronic disease than ever in history.
Harvey V. Fineberg
Death
History
World
Burden
Gone
Chronic
Prevention
Higher
Puts
Most
Source
Infectious
Than
Disease
Diseases
Which
Much
Premature
Premium
Illness
Preponderance
Ever
Acute
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
Horace Mann
Manners
Easily
Rapidly
Morals
Mature
When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless campaign for a very thankless position. And he did it because his mother had instilled in him, if you are someone who has the capacity to make a great change, you have the responsibility.
Howard Warren Buffett
Great
You
Change
Mother
Political
Father
Hero
Responsibility
Great Change
Ran
Someone
Had
He
Instilled
Make
Him
Because
His
Campaign
Very
Office
Did
Thankless
Capacity
Much
Who
Position
If I'm home, I'll be happy. And if I'm around family, and if I'm working on projects with friends, I don't know what else I'd want to be doing.
Howard Warren Buffett
Home
Family
Be Happy
Happy
Else
Projects
Know
Around
Doing
Friends
Want
Working
There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet.
Howard Warren Buffett
People
Soil
Organic
Living
More
Highly
Than
Planet
Organisms
Living Organisms
I was pulled out of Omaha when I was younger because my father started to work, when he was done serving as county commissioner, at Archer Daniels Midland.
Howard Warren Buffett
Work
Father
Out
He
County
Because
Commissioner
Done
Younger
Serving
Started
Pulled
Omaha
I'm committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reach more people when I do that. I bridge two different cultures and two different worlds, and I think that bridge still needs work.
I. King Jordan
Work
Needs
People
Communicate
Speak
Believe
Think
Worlds
Everything
Sign
More
More People
Reach
Also
Still
Cultures
Committed
Different
Different Cultures
Bridge
Different Worlds
Two
After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
I. King Jordan
Life
Education
Better
My Life
Deaf
Becoming
Get
After
Anything
Realized
Ever
I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.
I. King Jordan
Language
Year
Sign
Very
Scotland
American
Different
Lived
British
Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.
Ian Goldin
Waters
Our
Hunger
Out
Impact
Atmosphere
Having
Diverted
Crowds
Proportion
Consume
Major
Major Impact
Fellow
Oceans
Human
Human Activity
Warm
Land
Planet
Productivity
Products
Large
Activity
Waste
Species
I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
Ian Goldin
Pure
Torn
Between
Sciences
Always
Been
Social
Social Sciences
People often focus on the downsides of population growth but neglect the upsides. These upsides may even outweigh the downsides, making a larger population a good thing overall.
Ian Goldin
Good
People
Focus
Neglect
Good Thing
Outweigh
Overall
Making
May
Often
Even
Population
Population Growth
Larger
Growth
Thing
Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.
Ian Goldin
Citizens
Divided
Nations
Need
There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.
Irving Kirsch
Change
People
People Change
Become
Thinking
Kind
Variety
Leads
Behavioral
Depressed
Them
Help
Help People
Therapy
Techniques
Cognitive
To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.
Irving Kirsch
Example
First
Other
Would
Someone
For Example
Trying
Currently
Psychotherapy
Who
Suggest
Treatments
If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.
Irving Kirsch
Time
Doctors
Spent
More
Felt
Just
Patients
Might
Help
Reassured
The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.
Irving Kirsch
Relationship
Critical
Effect
Placebo
Antidepressants can have troubling side effects and are addictive for some people.
Irving Kirsch
People
Some People
Side
Addictive
Some
Troubling
Effects
Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
Irving Kirsch
Active
Benefiting
Percent
Perhaps
Patients
Ingredients
Really
Who
Prescribed
There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
Irving Kirsch
Seems
Most
Any
Patients
Little
Depressed
Reason
Prescribe
Medication
Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, for those who do not respond to alternative forms of interventions.
Irving Kirsch
Best
Extreme
Those
Respond
Cases
More
Perhaps
Alternative
Importantly
Very
Forms
Should
Who
Reserved
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