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The glass cracks, it shutters and scatters, a

windy icy breeze, the tear drops freeze, a

frozen stare, an empty sadness, behind the

silent scream, a person breaths. - Alyson Bradley

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 Within the stillness of the night, a time not to

be judged but simply be and somehow I feel

more connected to the world, when I can close

the door on society and let my thoughts

be my own for a while - Alyson Bradley

The spectrum big bang theory, just like the universe we are

expanding, as from a genetically engineered high breed to some

DNA aliens, but our minds so intense and continue to expand as

life form evolves. We will survive a boundless four-dimensional

continuum within time, we are here to stay.- Alyson Bradley

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"A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'universe,' a part

limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts

and feelings, as something separate from the rest a kind of optical

delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,

restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few

persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this

prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living

creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." - Albert Einstein

 With each day new beginnings, time passes and we

have to move forward because their is no standing

still or going back within time, the nights close in

and what ever we do daybreaks. - Alyson Bradley

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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up

for something, sometime in your life. -Winston Churchill

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Trapped in a prison within our own minds, a place where we

alone feel safe, a place where we alone can decide, a place where

there are no divides, a place where we choose, a place where

our dreams come true, a place where I can hide.  – Alyson Bradley

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the

huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the

vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars,

and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.' - St. Augustine

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Tomorrow could be the start of a whole new life or another day

procrastinating, dreaming, pondering time away. - Alyson Bradley

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of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.   - Ralph W. Sockman

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Circumstances often stop reality allowing! - Alyson Bradley

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 I would rather be hopeless and strong, than hopeful and crawling,

or kept numb from being frozen, in a world where I feel wrong. - Ana
My comment: I so love this quote, as myself I spent half a life time trying to please

others, and all that happen is it cause me to suffer. With finding self one thing, being

not easy, as society often quite ignorant to difference, so we have no choice except

 simply be and anyway why should we let others dictate who we are... we know !

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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more

complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of

courage to move in the opposite direction. - Albert Einstein

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 Never give your own power away to others, because all

that happens is it gets lost in the illusion!  - Alyson Bradley

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form

of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of

genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics

because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving.

We must sail sometimes with the wind and somestimes against it -but

we must sail and not drift or lie at anchor"  - Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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Like all true art to be found when least expected, a passing moment

or thought captured for time, inspiration infinite when we truly

see our vast world stretching out with no bounds.. - Alyson Bradley

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Never doubt that a small group of people can change the

world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead

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A trickled thought may one day reach a point in time that saves more

 than we ever dreamed we could achieve by sharing. – Alyson Bradley

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We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ~Thomas Fuller

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Take time to notice the little things around us, encourage and support those

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“Quotes a great way to express a thought, done well can become

a permanent moment in time, the quote may be adapted, evolve

even change, but the thought always says the same, a mystery to

some, an insight to another, purpose, reason, continuous...... !”

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The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at

random between the profusion of matter and of the stars,

but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves

images powerful enough to deny our nothingness. - Andre Malraux

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Traditions are group efforts to keep the

unexpected from happening. - Barbara Tober.

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 From my clinical experience I consider that children and adults with

AS have a different, not defective, way of thinking. - Tony Attwood

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"Maybe we need to stop trying to get our children to conform and let them

be who they are, stop trying to change them and educate society that

there is in fact a whole group of people who are just different.” Alyson Bradley

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There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that

the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you. - Norman Mailer

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Being diagnosed for any difference, it's not about the label

no one need know, it's about true identity. - Alyson Bradley

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A wave powered by a strong tide, becomes a force to be

reckoned with. It will be seen, heard and felt by many. Some people

will remain unaffected or uncaring, but others, who have not noticed

the ripples before, may turn, notice and begin caring. - Louise Page 

An Autism Connection:  http://stores.lulu.com/realistartinoz

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 One day our actions will not cause reactions - No one knows

the answers for autism, just like the universe! - Alyson Bradley

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Pale Blue: Dot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M

"I am a unique individual, just like everyone else on this planet!"

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Sometimes things are beyond our control and thats when

we need to stay stronge and come together... a tear drop a

passing moment,but can mean years of pain! - Alyson Bradley

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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind -

bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the

road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. - Douglas Adams

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When we start to think of how there is so much beyond our

own world, makes me wonder of the relevance of time in

comparable to us and the ever ending universe! - Alyson Bradley

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something.

Afterward you can remove all traces of reality." - Pablo Picasso.

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Some naively want to change others to suit their own

mind set, wrong of course.  As it’s a privileged to be able

to delve into the confirms of difference. – Alyson Bradley

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My definition of a healthy relationship is one that

makes you better by being a part of it. - Brian R. King

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Disconnected, embrace your neurological differences, as helps bring

individual components together and enables us to work in harmony

and truly connect with the world that surrounds us. – Alyson Bradley

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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst

 into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be

 thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. - Albert Schweitzer

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A world full of possibilities, believe and our

own boundaries are endless. - Alyson Bradley

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Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in every

-thing That's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen

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Below the surface of the water, somehow its always more clam, a

sanctuary. However much the ocean rages and fights above, as the

waves crash and explode, unexplained indifferences, a times a

chaotic contrast that does not always make sense, maybe the reason

some hide away form a world that does not always seem to let

everyone in, why fight a tide, when we can swim.! - Alyson Bradley

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Time yet a moment, that passes as I speak, each word echoes surround.

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The puzzle of life at times makes no sense, forever ending with missing

pieces, in part pieces have been stolen, cannot find, cannot comprehend,

disconnected and broken. Where, why, what and when, maybe an

impossibility, a mystery, but life itself is what we make it, how we create it,

embrace it, take it and own it, maybe time to mend. - Alyson Bradley

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"We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of

dreams" - by Lord Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton "

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 I can not cry your tears, only my own. - Alyson Bradley

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There is a thin line between genius and insanity.

I have erased this line. -Oscar Levant

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.I am not a reflection of you and never will be, my image

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There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that

the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you. - Norman Mailer

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You could say others have tried to cram me into a small box all my life, but

of course I never fitted, so much more to me. The more I discover the more

I like, but I feel even more distant from my life known reality. - Alyson Bradley

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We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives

are all different and yet the same. - Anne Frank

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I feel life is a journey and we all have to learn to ride the  storm,

 for some of us it can seem more like a tidal wave, but with

 every storm the sun eventually comes back out. -Alyson Bradley

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Not everything that steps out of line, and thus ‘abnormal’,

must necessarily be ‘inferior’. -  Hans Asperger (1938)

 Are our differences flaws or a misunderstood difference, my biggest

frustration in the world is not being allowed to be self. -Alyson Bradley

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient

in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities. - Dr Seuss

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At first the divine tasting wine is something to savior, but

I have heard many quotes where it has been said "There is a fine

line between madness and genius" but what is madness but a

difference not understood, extreme and complex pushed to the edge!

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness;

it is generally the by-product of other activities. - Aldous Huxley

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When at sea we can fight it, but working with it

always leads to calmer waters... - Alyson Bradley

AS someone told me it's the new must have !

that's if society doesn't steal your uniqueness. -Alyson Bradley

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There is no right no right or wrong,  but there is  agreed

 somewhere diversity and difference. - Alyson Bradley

Believe in yourself, we are who we are - as it can feel like an

endless task trying to be someone else! - Alyson Bradley

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 To not understand autism is like forever drifting in an ocean,

I was simply thinking, why shouldn't I be me and then I thought

I geuss I am as there is no other way to be. - Alyson Bradley

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 Many prefer to not listen, to them my mad rantings,

but to me the truth behind irgorance- Alyson Bradley

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Instead of being understood, we are damaged from birth

and then given labels no one really understand! Alyson Bradley

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 . As a child we do not know or understand
Growing up it can be terrifying and confusing
In old age acceptance and exclusion. Alyson Bradley

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Open your eyes, look and see, a world full of diversity,

we can ignore or embrace and be! - Alyson Bradley

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Lost in reflections of a stereo type mirror imagine,

look deep within and your still be there. Alyson Bradley

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I have been incased in an ice cube far too long. It is

time to let the ice melt and break free. - Alyson Bradley

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As I retreat further within my shell. My

creative imagination takes over. Alyson Bradley

It's said all cats have Aspergers because they do not like being

told what to do, intelligent independent, hate change, emotionally

detached, inquisitive and have a second sense. - Alyson Bradley

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There is only one animal that cannot be made a slave to the

lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat,

it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat. - Mark Twain

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I can be an imagine in my mind or except the person I am, we all

need to believe in the inner self, our very core for me my autism

heart, because my image of self to others is in away an empty shell,

so judge only when you know what truly is inside! - Alyson Bradley

Believe, allow and accept in self -

no boundaries except your own!

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At times the mountains seem untouchable and

sometimes to real, like a impossible challenge, a force

to be reckoned with and respected, and somehow

make us seem insignificant, but right now I feel like I

could reach the top and still touch the sky.- Alyson Bradley

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where

have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is

going to take more than one night." - Charles M. Schulz

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When we judge others, are we not really questioning

self, as we are all born as unique individuals - Alyson Bradley

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It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny

can only be grasped one link at a time. Sir Winston Churchill

 Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine,

it is stranger than we can imagine. - Sir Atrhur Eddington

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The important thing is not to stop questioning.  Curiosity has its own reason

for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries

of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.  - Albert Einstein

I never set out to be weird. It was always other

I may have been born different and misunderstood from birth, but I

know there is a place for me, somewhere in this universe. - Alyson Bradley

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together

with good intentions.     - Augusten Burroughs

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 If I was stuck within life's confines I would truly be bored - Alyson Bradley

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there a need for one.- John Elder Robison

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enough to make them all yourself. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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Not everything that steps out of line, and thus 'abnormal,'

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I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over.  Out on the

edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the centre. - Kurt Vonnegut

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I believe boundaries need to be expanded,

contoured and changed! - Alyson Bradley

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.
  - Michael Fry and T. Lewis

“I just want to continue to exist,  but you continue

 to question my very existence!”  –  Alyson Bradley

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The difference between high-functioning and low-functioning is

that high-functioning means your deficits are ignored, and low-

functioning means your assets are ignored.  -  Laura Tisoncik

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People with Asperger's want contact with other people very much;

we're just pathetically clueless at it, that's all. - Donald Morton

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 Life is about understanding self and having the confidence to be self,

who ever that may be. After all the majority is only those that

happen to be around you in each given moment. - Alyson Bradley

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. - David Icke

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and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly

changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are

far more valuable than those which divide us. - Donna Williams

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now

accepted was once eccentric. - Bertrand Russell

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Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us free - our minds, our

souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our intelligence, our love of famil,

  friends and country. All of these priceless possessions are free. ~ Earl Nightingale

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They wish to cure us. But I say, we are the cure. - Magneto, X-men III

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Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue

of the fact that they believe in something, use that

something to support their own existence. - Frank Zappa

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm

our worst suspicions about them. - Franklin P Adams

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Some times it takes the bad to find the good - Alyson Bradley

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 It is the wounded oyster that mends its shell with pearl" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Intelligent people, through their ability to analyze, often realize things

which are disconcerting, which others would not see. They also are often

capable of feeling more deeply, both pain and joy.  - Janet Woititz

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You cannot surpass the current paradigm from within the current paradigm.

You must discover a greater paradigm and expand into it. - Alan Cohen

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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the

time to understand more, so that we may fear less - Marie Curie

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous - Shana Alexander

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People with Asperger's want contact with other people very much;

we're just pathetically clueless at it, that's all. - Donald Morton

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What happens when the future has come and gone? - Robert Half

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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct

way, and the only way, it does not exist. - Fredrich Nietzche

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No matter how many instances of white swans we see,

we must never assume that all swans are white.~Sir Karl Popper

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You can not change what does not need to be changed!

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 AS hasn't affected me negatively; NT stupidity has.

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 Inside my head, I'm having more fun than you could possibly

imagine, but outside of my head, well, that's a different story.

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The main problem with autism is we do not act,

we just are, raw human, and that is a scary beast.

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An invisible force field between me and the rest of humanity.

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 A different and enlightening window on the world.

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loneliness of the journey is connected to the loneliness of the condition.

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If he had Aspergers we would understand, but you don't.

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Sure there are plenty of other fish in the sea, but you're

not anywhere near the sea - your in the desert - alone.

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A dash of autism is essential for creative success.

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The only reason some people get lost in

thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

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How you see yourself verses how you think others see you

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Music is the language of the world. Math is the language of the universe.

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I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.

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If great minds think alike, does that

mean that stupid minds think differently?

He was sincere in his total impossibility.

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I will not cease in my never ending pursuit of the truth...

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I'm much stronger than I used to be, but I haven't changed at all.

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It is a miracle that curiosity survives, when crushed time & time again!

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Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

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Between the idea and the reality, between

the motion and the act, falls the Shadow

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Goals are deceptive, the unaided arrow never misses.

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Though fire may burn & flames envelop me, I will arise from the ashes.

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I intend to live forever, or die trying

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We are born ignorant, then made stupid by lack of correct knowledge

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I'm different and don't know how not to be.

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I have taken your word as the truth, rather than the truth as mine

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I wish for....immortality…..and wish again!

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Worldwide nerd born to leave my mark upon the internet

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Another stressful day on your planet

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If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it,

do the other trees make fun of it?

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Yes I am Aspergers, No that's not why I don't like you!

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Whatever you think you know about me, the truth is

my life is so much more  complicated than that.

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It's easier to critize somebody else, rather than to see yourself!

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The trees slowly drained of life begins to die, the wind whispers

 ASD  and slowly the trees fill with soft white bosom. - Alyson Bradley

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- From one of AsPlanet forum members -

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 " I run on unreliable rechargable batteries, which can lose their charge at

random intervals. Bad days are when they have to be re charged. If there

is too much sensory and emotional input during the recharging process,

the mental energy will not be enough to sustain a response."
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"Impulsive behaviour can be compared to issac newton's third

law of motion 'for every action there must be a reaction' "
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"Attempting eye contact is like a heat seeking

missile that cannot lock onto its target."
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"if society is an organism, each person

is a cell, then money is the cancer."
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"100% freedom is no different to a virus invading a body,

the planet is like an organism, humankind and the freedom to

over breed an consume, is like a virus, if we carry on the

way we do the earth as it currently is will die."
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More of Matts "Metaphors and expression":
http://beastinblack.blogspot.com/2008/11/metaphors-and-expression.html

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Can you tell I have AS?  Haha  (48yo M officially an Aspie on 19/2/2009)
I saw 'The world of Asperger's' on the ABC Science show Catalyst 28/8/08
I potted around the internet until I read a page on 19/12/2008.
Then, I was 100% convinced I has AS.
Yay, finally the world believes my problems are real.
I have known I was different since 7 years old.
The attachment is 20 quotes + 3 of my own.
Keep up the good work.
Thank you.
Regards
Colin

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Selected Quotes:  Motivation

My journey forward led inwards:  the confidence to be myself.       Colin McWhirter

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I have been in cased in an ice cube far too long.

It is time to let the ice melt and break free.       Alyson Bradley

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Nothing creates creativity like limited funds.       Unknown

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People don’t change they emerge.      Unknown

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Choose a job that you love and you'll never work a day in your life.      Confucius

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Be the change you want to see in the world.       Gandhi

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Our problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

 Albert Einstein

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We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.      Anais Nin

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Seek first to understand, then to be understood.      Stephen R. Covey

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Work expands to fill the time available.      Parkinson's Law

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10% of people are positive, 10% are negative, the other 80% are sheep.

Colin McWhirter

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Treat others as you want to be treated.      The Golden Rule

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Don't worry who's right, but what's right.      Unknown

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"Once the last tree is cut and the last river poisoned, you will find you cannot

eat your money."       Traditional saying

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Selected Quotes:  Friendship

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others;

it is the only means.       Albert Einstein

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A friend may well be reconed the masterpiece of nature.       Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:

if there is any reaction, both are transformed.       Carl Jung

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Love is friendship set on fire.       Jeremy Taylor

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He could be anywhere in the world, but he chooses to be with her, because life

 is better with her  by his side.       Chris Noth, Movie "The Perfect Man"

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Men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way. 

Billy Crystal, Movie "When Harry Met Sally"

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Love just shows up and you go, 'Oh, wow, this is going to be a hayride and a half.'

Jennifer Aniston about John Mayer.

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Relationships are like the tennis ball - equal partners rally longer.

- after 2 serves you wait for the return.        Colin McWhirter

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That's life, People come into your life and people leave it.

I have a philosophical view on it:  Certain things happen for a reason.

You just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.

Orlando Bloom, on ending his engagement with actress Jemma Kidd.

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 A poem is never finished, only abandoned. - Paul Valery

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A poem is a thought that fulfills passing time, we change but our

I have only recently really started writing poems (thoughts!) I find it a

wonderful way to express things that maybe for now are easier unsaid!

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 Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that

went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. - George Orwell

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Love until there's pain, love through the pain,

love until all that's left is love. - Heidi Baker.
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We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized

before we are fit to participate in society.   - Judith Martin

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but

by the seeds you plant - Robert Louis Stevenson

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 If you have time to whine and complain about something then you

have the time to do something about it.” -- Anthony J. D'Angelo

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Poems:: http://asplanet.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74

and please join us on AsPlanet forum to discuss quotes / poems and or add

your own - http://asplanet.info/forum/index.php?board=30.0

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If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize

it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe

it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for

acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest

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Stop, take time, connect with the world around you,

as those precious moments may pass by - Alyson Bradley

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Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth

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 Those that choose not to listen, choose not to really know! - Alyson Braldey

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