#lt

When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done. ↗

— John Grierson

#done #having #imperative #manipulation #masses

Dissociation is the common response of children to repetitive, overwhelming trauma and holds the untenable knowledge out of awareness. The losses and the emotions engendered by the assaults on soul and body cannot, however be held indefinitely. In the absence of effective restorative experiences, the reactions to trauma will find expression. As the child gets older, he will turn the rage in upon himself or act it out on others, else it all will turn into madness. ↗

— Judith Spencer

#amnesia #dissociation #madness #memory #memory-loss

When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#absolutely #baptism #baptized #because #believe

I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill. ↗

— D. W. Griffith

#boards #fill #get #i #less

Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message. ↗

— John Grisham

#best #books #death #death penalty #fraud

I went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan staff would not be willing to take the risk of sending an official military force into Laos. ↗

— Bo Gritz

#delta #force #gearing #i #indeed

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. ↗

— Lewis Grizzard

#difficult #eating #homegrown #pleasant #think

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#archimedes #brain #did #direction #door

Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#belief #consciousness #cultures #developed #earth

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#back #band #being #craziness #ever