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Carl Elliott

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Quotes by Carl Elliott

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This is not something you or I do. This is something the poor do so that the rich get better drugs.
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What makes our contemporary neurobiological concepts different is the extent to which they have been promoted by pharmaceutical marketers. You are not shy; you have social anxiety disorder. You are not absentminded, dreamy, or fidgety; you have ADHD. You are not moody; you are bipolar. Each diagnosis comes with a prescription. Your need for medication becomes part of your identity.
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Medical care is neither a right nor a privilege: it is a service provided by doctors and other to people who wish to purchase it.
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The danger of academic life, thought Wittgenstein, is that we are encouraged to go on talking even when we know in our hearts that we have nothing valuable to say.
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We are led into philosophical confusion, thought Wittgenstein, by seeking explanations at times when we should instead simply stop and say, “This is how things are.
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We've been looking forward to this for a long time, it's Duke. No one is expecting us to win, but within this locker room we're a confident basketball team.
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We attack Temple by attacking the zone, finding open guys in the zone and not settling for long jump shots. We want to make them speed up. They are a slow team.
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We came out very intense and put a lot of ball pressure on their guards and forced them to do something under duress. We all came out and just were very aggressive.
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Our goal is to keep it moving and ride this as long as we can. One of the things Coach Hobbs keeps telling us is that as fast as we've gotten to where we are, we can fall out just as fast if we don't focus on getting better every day and moving forward.
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I think we all realize this, but like most things we already know, this has been empirically verified by academics with grant money.
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