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What, no Star Wars?"
Solo sighs. "I wanted to bring the original, unaltered Episode IV, in which my namesake shoots first, as our Lord and savior intended."
"Why didn't you?"
"I only have it on VHS, and my dad's old VHS player broke halfway through the summer.
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Jeff Garvin (Symptoms of Being Human)
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In my experience there is no such thing as luck, my young friend—only highly favorable adjustments of multiple factors to incline events in one’s favor.
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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Ackbar spoke desperately into the comlink. “It’s a trap.
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes.” Leia Organa of Alderaan, Senator
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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I find,” Vader ventured mildly, “this lack of faith disturbing.
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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Hocuspocus religions and archaic weapons are no substitute for a good blaster at your side,
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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These stars marked the moments of the universe. There were aging orange embers, blue dwarfs, twin yellow giants. There were collapsing neutron stars, and angry supernovae that hissed into the icy emptiness. There were borning stars, breathing stars, pulsing stars, and dying stars. There was the Death Star.
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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No,” Threepio responded, “I don’t think he likes you at all.” A second beep failed to alter the stern tone in the taller robot’s voice. “No, I don’t like you, either.
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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That’s no moon,” Kenobi breathed softly.
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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The security offered inside a bank safe even became fodder for a 1959 episode of The Twilight Zone, in which mild-mannered, bookish bank clerk Henry Bemis, who locked himself inside the bank’s safe each day to read during his lunch break, emerged from the vault one day to find the world devastated by nuclear bombs. IV
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Garrett M. Graff (Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die)
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An angry electronic twang came from the Artoo unit. “Don’t call me a mindless philosopher,” Threepio snapped back, “you overweight, unstreamlined glob of grease!” Threepio
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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No,” Vader replied calmly. “I am your father.” Stunned,
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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No,” Yoda said impatiently. “Try not. Do, do. Or do not. There is no try.” Luke closed his eyes. He tried to envision the contours,
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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Meanwhile, on the Dearth Star... (Yum, yum, yum, yum, YUM-YUM, yum, YUM-YUM...)
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Michelle Eshbaugh-Soha (Food Wars, Episode IV: A Noodle of Hope: A "Star Wars" parody as told from the imagined perspective of Man's Best Friend)
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When people call it that I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds like you just get like really sad, you get quiet and melancholy and just like sit quietly by the window sighing or just lying around. A state of not caring about anything. A kind of blue kind of peaceful state.’ She seemed to the doctor decidedly more animated now, even as she seemed unable to meet his eyes. Her respiration had sped back up. The doctor recalled classic hyperventilatory episodes being characterized by carpopedal spasms, and reminded himself to monitor the patient’s hands and feet carefully during the interview for any signs of tetanic contraction, in which case the prescribed therapy would be I.V. calcium in a saline percentage he would need quickly to look up. ‘Well this’—she gestured at herself—‘isn’t a state. This is a feeling. I feel it all over. In my arms and legs.’ ‘That would include your carp—your hands and feet?’ ‘All over. My head, throat, butt. In my stomach. It’s all over everywhere. I don’t know what I could call it. It’s like I can’t get enough outside it to call it anything. It’s like horror more than sadness. It’s more like horror. It’s like something horrible is about to happen, the most horrible thing you can imagine—no, worse than you can imagine because there’s the feeling that there’s something you have to do right away to stop it but you don’t know what it is you have to do, and then it’s happening, too, the whole horrible time, it’s about to happen and also it’s happening, all at the same time.
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David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest)
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But what separates human consciousness from the consciousness of animals? Humans are alone in the animal kingdom in understanding the concept of tomorrow. Unlike animals, we constantly ask ourselves “What if?” weeks, months, and even years into the future, so I believe that Level III consciousness creates a model of its place in the world and then simulates it into the future, by making rough predictions. We can summarize this as follows: Human consciousness is a specific form of consciousness that creates a model of the world and then simulates it in time, by evaluating the past to simulate the future. This requires mediating and evaluating many feedback loops in order to make a decision to achieve a goal. By the time we reach Level III consciousness, there are so many feedback loops that we need a CEO to sift through them in order to simulate the future and make a final decision. Accordingly, our brains differ from those of other animals, especially in the expanded prefrontal cortex, located just behind the forehead, which allows us to “see” into the future. Dr. Daniel Gilbert, a Harvard psychologist, has written, “The greatest achievement of the human brain is its ability to imagine objects and episodes that do not exist in the realm of the real, and it is this ability that allows us to think about the future. As one philosopher noted, the human brain is an ‘anticipation machine,’ and ‘making the future’ is the most important thing it does.” Using brain scans, we can even propose a candidate for the precise area of the brain where simulation of the future takes place. Neurologist Michael Gazzaniga notes that “area 10 (the internal granular layer IV), in the lateral prefrontal cortex, is almost twice as large in humans as in apes. Area 10 is involved with memory and planning, cognitive flexibility, abstract thinking, initiating appropriate behavior, and inhibiting inappropriate behavior, learning rules, and picking out relevant information from what is perceived through the senses.” (For this book, we will refer to this area, in which decision making is concentrated, as the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, although there is some overlap with other areas of the brain.)
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Michio Kaku (The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind)
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Prior to the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), the diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder had been referred to as Multiple Personality Disorder. The renaming of this diagnosis has caused quite a bit of confusion among professionals and those who live with DID. Because dissociation describes the process by which DID begins to develop, rather than the actual outcome of this process (the formation of various personalities), this new term may be a bit unclear.
We know that the diagnosis is DID and that DID is what people say we have. We’d just like to point out that words sometimes do not describe what we live with. For people like us, DID is just a step on the way to where we live—a place with many of us inside! We just want people who have little ones and bigger ones living inside to know that the title Dissociative Identity Disorder sounds like something other than how we see ourselves—we think it is about us having different personalities.
Regardless of the term, it is clear that, in general, the different personalities develop as a reaction to severe trauma. When the person dissociates, they leave their body to get away from the pain or trauma.
When this defense is not strong enough to protect the person, different personalities emerge to handle the experience. These personalities allow the child to survive: when the child is being harmed or experiencing traumatic episodes, the other personalities take the pain and/ or watch the bad things. This allows these children to return to their body after the bad things have happened without any awareness of what has occurred. They do this to create different ways to make sense of the harm inflicted upon them; it is their survival mechanism.
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Karen Marshall (Amongst Ourselves: A Self-Help Guide to Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder)
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ANOTHER GALAXY, ANOTHER TIME. The Old Republic was the Republic of legend, greater than distance or time. No need to note where it was or whence it came, only to know that … it was the Republic. Once, under the wise rule of the Senate and the protection of the Jedi Knights, the Republic throve and grew. But as often happens when wealth and power pass beyond the admirable and attain the awesome, then appear those evil ones who have greed to match. So it was with the Republic at its height. Like the greatest of trees, able to withstand any external attack, the Republic rotted from within though the danger was not visible from outside. Aided and abetted by restless, power-hungry individuals within the government, and the massive organs of commerce, the ambitious Senator Palpatine caused himself to be elected President of the Republic. He promised to reunite the disaffected among the people and to restore the remembered glory of the Republic. Once secure in office he declared himself Emperor, shutting himself away from the populace. Soon he was controlled by the very assistants and boot-lickers he had appointed to high office, and the cries of the people for justice did not reach his ears. Having exterminated through treachery and deception the Jedi Knights, guardians of justice in the galaxy, the Imperial governors and bureaucrats prepared to institute a reign of terror among the disheartened worlds of the galaxy. Many used the Imperial forces and the name of the increasingly isolated Emperor to further their own personal ambitions. But a small number of systems rebelled at these new outrages. Declaring themselves opposed to the New Order they began the great battle to restore the Old Republic. From the beginning they were vastly outnumbered by the systems held in thrall by the Emperor. In those first dark days it seemed certain the bright flame of resistance would be extinguished before it could cast the light of new truth across a galaxy of oppressed and beaten peoples … From the First Saga Journal of the Whills
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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Just once—and that was a long time ago, in a star system far, far away. This
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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In those first dark days it seemed certain the bright flame of resistance would be extinguished before it could cast the light of new truth across a galaxy of oppressed and beaten peoples … From the First Saga Journal of the Whills
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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IT WAS AN OLD SETTLERS’ SAYING that you could burn your eyes out faster by staring straight and hard at the sun-scorched flatlands of Tatooine than by looking directly at its two huge suns themselves, so powerful was the penetrating glare reflected from those endless wastes.
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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The STAR WARS Novels Timeline OLD REPUBLIC 5000–33 YEARS BEFORE STAR WARS: A New Hope Lost Tribe of the Sith* Precipice Skyborn Paragon Savior Purgatory Sentinel 3650 YEARS BEFORE STAR WARS: A New Hope The Old Republic: Deceived Lost Tribe of the Sith* Pantheon Secrets Red Harvest The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance 1032 YEARS BEFORE STAR WARS: A New Hope Knight Errant Darth Bane: Path of Destruction Darth Bane: Rule of Two Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil RISE OF THE EMPIRE 33–0 YEARS BEFORE STAR WARS: A New Hope Darth Maul: Saboteur* Cloak of Deception Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter 32 YEARS BEFORE STAR WARS: A New Hope STAR WARS: EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace Rogue Planet Outbound Flight The Approaching Storm 22 YEARS BEFORE STAR WARS: A New Hope STAR WARS: EPISODE II: Attack of the Clones 22–19 YEARS BEFORE STAR WARS: A New Hope The Clone Wars The Clone Wars: Wild Space The Clone Wars: No Prisoners Clone Wars Gambit Stealth Siege Republic Commando Hard Contact Triple Zero True Colors Order 66 Shatterpoint The Cestus Deception The Hive* MedStar I: Battle Surgeons MedStar II: Jedi Healer Jedi Trial Yoda: Dark Rendezvous Labyrinth of Evil 19 YEARS BEFORE STAR WARS: A New Hope STAR WARS: EPISODE III: Revenge of the Sith Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader Imperial Commando 501st Coruscant Nights Jedi Twilight Street of Shadows Patterns of Force The
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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It’s hard to explain how important Star Trek is to me. I think I went to my first Star Trek convention when I was fifteen. So to hear that Leonard Nimoy—Mr. Spock—was on the phone, I was not processing what he was saying. I could only focus on his amazing voice. I thought this was a phone call to see if he’d agree to do the part, but in his mind, he had already agreed to do it! He had one specific note on the script, which is that Mr. Spock doesn’t use contractions when he speaks. He says “cannot;” he doesn’t say “can’t.” And I remember just being chagrined that I hadn’t intervened and had allowed this to go on. I loved Spock so much, I used to sneak lines of Mr. Spock dialogue from the movies and TV shows into Big Bang Theory and give them to Sheldon. There’s an episode early on where Sheldon and Leonard are having a fight, and Penny asks, “Well, how do you feel?” And Sheldon replies, “I don’t understand the question.” That’s from the beginning of Star Trek IV where Spock has reunited with his mind and his body, and is being quizzed by a computer about his status. So Leonard Nimoy was just one of many fanboy moments. I once said to LeVar Burton, “If I could go back in time and tell my teenage self there would be a day where I would eventually talk to three crew members of the USS Enterprise, I’d fall over and die.
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Jessica Radloff (The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series)
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These aren’t the ’droids you’re looking for,” Kenobi told him pleasantly. “These aren’t the ’droids we’re looking for.
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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But I was going into Tosche station to pick up some new power converters and …
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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To look at these two, one would have supposed that the tall, humanlike machine, Threepio, was the master and the stubby, tripodal robot, Artoo Detoo, an inferior. But while Threepio might have sniffed disdainfully at the suggestion, they were in fact equal in everything save loquacity.
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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One purpose, one thought, one obsession dominated that mind now. It burned in the brain of Darth Vader as he turned down another passageway in the broken fighter.
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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What’s a duck?” Luke asked curiously.
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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There were aging orange embers, blue dwarfs, twin yellow giants. There were collapsing neutron stars, and angry supernovae that hissed into the icy emptiness. There were borning stars, breathing stars, pulsing stars, and dying stars. There was the Death Star. At
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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Force has never kept anything together for very long. The more you tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers.
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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The title is “I am not the sexist pig you are looking for”. He is merely attempting to state that he is not a sexist pig right? Until one understands the cultural reference to Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Then his insidious plan is revealed! Muahahaha! Just kidding. But it does resemble a striking similarity to a scene on Tatooine.
The scene where Master Obi-wan “Ben” Kenobi uses the force and tells the Stormtroopers “these are the not the droids you are looking for” The odd thing in this scene is that they were the droids that the Empire was looking for. After the comments Mr. Harris made and the obvious lack of scientific credibility in his statements, the writers are betting he wished he had the force and mind trick.
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Idav Kelly (The Leprechaun Delusion)
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That’s a power outlet, stupid, not an information terminal.” Artoo
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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He was no longer an individual, functioning solely to satisfy his personal needs. Something now bound him to every other man and woman in this hangar. All
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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But that’s not why they should help us. That’s why I used to do stuff, because it was in my interest. But not anymore. Well, not so much, anyway. Mostly I do things for my friends, now—’cause what else is so important? Money? Power? Jabba had that, and you know what happened to him. Okay, okay, the point is—your friends are … your friends. You know?” This
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. ~ Obi Wan Kenobi, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
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Ben Reeder (The Demon's Apprentice (The Demon's Apprentice, #1))
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He’s looking like he’s unconscious,” Jack answered genuinely, not even a hint of sarcasm in his voice. “I think you hit him so hard that it knocked him out.
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Kevin Weinberg (Psych Investigation Episodes: Episode IV)
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Exodus read like Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope and the book of Joshua now felt more like Return of the Jedi, with the addition of extensive real estate transactions.
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Harrison Scott Key (How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told)
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It reminded me forcibly of Episode III in “The Perils of Pamela.” How often had I not sat in the sixpenny seats, eating a twopenny bar of milk chocolate, and yearning for similar things to happen to me. Well, they had happened with a vengeance. And somehow it was not nearly so amusing as I had imagined. It’s all very well on the screen—you have the comfortable knowledge that there’s bound to be an Episode IV. But in real life there was absolutely no guarantee that Anna the Adventuress might not terminate abruptly at the end of any Episode.
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Agatha Christie (Agatha Christie: Five Books: The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Secret Adversary, The Murder on the Links, The Man in the Brown Suit, and Poirot Investigates)
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Not a more wretched collection of villainy and disreputable types exists anywhere on Tatooine.
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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To achieve a diagnostic assessment, it is important to remember that diagnosis does not hinge on the subjects answer to any single question on the SCID-D. A positive response regarding one dissociative symptom often has several possible ramifications, which must be explored through persistence with related questions. Isolated dissociative symptoms may occur in a number of different psychiatric syndromes, both dissociative and nondissociative. An isolated dissociative symptom, such as use of an alternate name or an amnestic episode, is insufficient grounds for diagnosis. To provide evidence sufficient for an accurate diagnosis, the symptom must exist in combination with other symptoms that, as a group, conform to the characteristic pattern of one of the five disorders oudined in the Diagnostic Work Sheets in Appendix 2.
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Marlene Steinberg (Interviewer's Guide to the Structured Clinical Interview for Dsm-IV Dissociative Disorders (Scid-D))
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Luke Skywalker was twice the age of the ten-year-old vaporator, but much less secure.
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George Lucas (Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV, V & VI)
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Only Gerald's goodness could lead the witch back to a path of righteousness.
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Vanessa Riley (Unveiling Love: Episode IV (A London Regency Romance Suspense Tale, #4))
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I need your help, Puke. She needs your help. I'm getting too old for these things. I've got arthritis in my legs and my eyesight's starting to go. Last week I thought I was eating a chicken leg and it turned out to be a salt grinder. THAT hurt comin' out the other end. Like I'd sat on a lit blowtorch. And a set of kitchen knives. Tied to the blowtorch.
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Michelle Eshbaugh-Soha (Food Wars, Episode IV: A Noodle of Hope: A "Star Wars" parody as told from the imagined perspective of Man's Best Friend)
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We're trying to count the rebel ships, Lord Vader," he said, "but we lost count at three. We expect there are a million and a half of them. However, they're so small that they're evading our turbo saser sauce.
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Michelle Eshbaugh-Soha (Food Wars, Episode IV: A Noodle of Hope: A "Star Wars" parody as told from the imagined perspective of Man's Best Friend)
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armed with the dreaded soap-and-water guns
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Michelle Eshbaugh-Soha (Food Wars, Episode IV: A Noodle of Hope: A "Star Wars" parody as told from the imagined perspective of Man's Best Friend)