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126 Professor Quotes

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Afflict Destroy Plague State
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I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

Able Being Could Frustration
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You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.

Autistic Autistic Children Cannot Children
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I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism.

Also Am Approach Autism
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Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach.

Approach Behavioral Children May
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There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label.

Children Label Range Tremendous
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People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

Always Bullet Change Everything
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I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.
Cannot Emphasize Enough Good
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Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.

Autistic Autistic Children Just Knack
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I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.

Adult Autistic Doing Extremely
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And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.
Always Benefit Look Medication
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Pressure is calming to the nervous system.
Calming Nervous Nervous System Pressure
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As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment.

Also Animals Autistic Autistic Children
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Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.

Adult Animals Babies Baby
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We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world.

Children Engaged Got Keeping
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I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.
Great Intellect Obtain Out
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I like to figure things out and solve problems.
Figure Like Out Problems
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I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

Invent Mind Problems Solve
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My life is basically my work.
Basically Life My Life Work
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If I did not have my work, I would not have any life.
Any Did Life Work
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I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

All Day Aunt Day Games
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I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.

Brain Google Images Like
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What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.

Between Both Combine Cross
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I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. It takes a ton of processor space in the brain to have all the social circuits.

Autistic Brain Brains I Think
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The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play.

About Always Autistic Because
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If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.

Autism Bit Delay Family
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My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.
Airplane Automatic Engineer Grandfathe
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There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.

Around Autism Centers Concentrate
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I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.

Abstract Change Get Less
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The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things.

Did Expose Important Important Thing
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I was expected to sit at the table, learn how to eat properly.
Eat Expected How Learn
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I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.
Between Cross Divide Like
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Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.

Language Me Mind Pictures
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My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures.
Brings Google Images Key
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I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary.

Always Autism College College Professor
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From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder.

Autism Disorder Part Scientific
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When I was younger, I was looking for this magic meaning of life.

Life Looking Magic Meaning
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Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.'

Autism Cup Hear Just
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One big question that's come up is: Has autism increased on the mild side of things? I don't think so - they've always been here. Some of this is increased detection.

Always Autism Been Big
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It's much more work for the mother of an autistic child to have a job, because working with an autistic child is such a hassle until they go to school.

Autistic Because Child Go
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Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.

Analysis Determine Effective Enable
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Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform liability laws to stop out-of-control health care costs.

Care Care Costs Costs Health
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I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.

Comfort Comfort Zone Fail Good
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The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

The Will Is Beast
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You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
You Are Not Responsible
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Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Grant That May Pray
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God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
God Writes Gospel Not
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I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Afraid That Schools Prove
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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Reasons The Enemy Of
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Forgiveness is God's command.

Forgiveness God's Command Is
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