"Dementia was like a truth serum."

-- Amy Tan

#Dementia Quotes

“I've always thought that my exposure to competitive sports helped me a great deal in the operating room. It teaches you endurance, and it teaches you how to cope with defeat, and with complications of all sort. I think I'm a well-coordinated person, more than average, and I think that came through my interest in sports, and athletics. ... Playing basketball You have to make decisions promptly, and that's true in the operating room as well.”

Source : "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.
“Expectations send unconscious signals that people respond to.”
“Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil....”
“Lean back into the arms of grace.”
“Unless we are really trusting Him, where does the praise come in? This peace the Savior gives is not an artificial one. It is so deep that even the devil can't disturb it. You can't hear things in the Spirit while you have any turmoil or fear in you. You can't take a shade of fear into the presence of God.”
“What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.”
“There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.”

Source : Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.123, Vintage
“If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight.”

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