Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction."
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Dysfunction
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Robert Downey, Jr.
Actor, Producer
"Pick a dysfunction and it's a family problem."
Mariel Hemingway
Actress, Author
"I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction."
Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"People can't live with themselves much longer. The planet cannot live with humans much longer! We have the weaponry, destruction of the planet, pollution, destruction of forests, countless manifestations of humans using their intelligence in the service of the dysfunction, the madness. It's a strange juxtaposition. Humans are intelligent, but if you look at history or even watch TV, they're also incredibly stupid."
Dana Gould
Comedian
"I was born an emotional tampon in a cauldron of dysfunction."
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"Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?"
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"The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment."
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"I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make."
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"The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell manifests, whose only goal is to multiply itself, unaware that it is bringing about its own destruction by destroying the organism of which it is a part."
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"When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it."
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"When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are."
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"Science and technology have amplified the effects of the dysfunction of the human mind in its unawakened state to such a degree that humanity, and probably the planet, would not survive for another hundred years if human consciousness remains unchanged."
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"If you ever tell anyone about Jonah's sexual dysfunction, I'll never play music again."
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"As I travel around the world, it's fascinating; European leaders, Asian leaders, they all say to me, America is actually poised to be the world leader for another century - if we can fix some of this political dysfunction. ... We've got a lot of national security challenges, but if we get our economy together, and if we can get our political system to work well, I am really confident about our future."
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"The egoic madness, or dysfunction, becomes enormously amplified by the science and technology we all have developed."
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"If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great."
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"What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written - out of and amid the dysfunction."
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"Bob Dole is going to be appearing in a Pepsi commercial with Britney Spears. Yeah, apparently Dole says that if this doesn't cure his erectile dysfunction, nothing will."
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"I had several teachers who inspired me, in both the public school system and the Upward Bound program. I needed several, because I lived in such abject poverty and dysfunction. And they're still in my life today, because I consider them to be friends, actually."
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"The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord - is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world."
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"There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can't wait any longer for federal help."
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