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I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of o...

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I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've trie...

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I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but pro...

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To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.

Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say."This sounded promisi...

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

I'm 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or ...

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Stress can alter the expression of genes, which can affect the response to stress and so on. Human b...

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Matt RidleyGenome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was...

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Ree-" Grey barked into the icy silence. "Lax!"The word spat so unexpectedly into her ear had precise...

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Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.

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Michael CrichtonThe Andromeda Strain

I don't stress myself about my looks. I love to laugh. I like being able to lead an interesting life...

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Fear of a bully, fear of a volcano; the power within you does not distinguish. It does not recognize...

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The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her...

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In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. ...

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The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Years ago, I dated a lovely young woman who was a few thousand dollars in debt. She was completely s...

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Lately, Mami’s eyes have been so dark, I don’t like looking into them because I’m afraid I’ll fall i...

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All he really knew was that if he stayed here he would soon be the property of things that buzzed an...

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As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The ...

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Richard MathesonWhat Dreams May Come

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have don...

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Intense fatigue or illness may also weaken the control of the cortex. Hence we find tired or sick pe...

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Rollo MayThe Meaning of Anxiety

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress...

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If there is any kernel of truth in the religions we so deplore,and they are just a carnival of error...

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I wanna stay an eternal girlfriend. I want to have my boyfriend's children, but I don't think we nee...

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I'm convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. If one is writing for one's own pleasure...

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Stephen KingOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming e...

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Ladies, stress shows on your face. Happiness is the true beauty we

Ladies, stress shows on your face. Happiness is the true beauty weapon." ( Kym Douglas / Cindy Pearl...

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Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and - wh...

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I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Comple...

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When stress is the problem, slack is the solution.

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Tom DeMarcoSlack: Getting Past Burnout

One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fas...

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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery th...

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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Then I resolved that I would go back out there and somehow cope with the situation, despite the fact...

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There's no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Natural...

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In moments of great stress, the mind focuses itself upon some quite unimportant matter which is reme...

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Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting...

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Conscious breathing is the best antidote to stress, anxiety and depression.

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Amit RayBeautify your Breath - Beautify your Life

Breathing is our participation with the cosmic dance. When our breath is in harmony, cosmos nourishe...

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Amit RayBeautify your Breath - Beautify your Life

Drop the fear. What you fear most, can be a repeated theme in your life.

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Amit RayMindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

When we are aware about our body’s sensations, we can release physical pain, tensions or stress thro...

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I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting y...

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How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, inclu...

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In our circle, stress was a valuable status marker: I stress, therefore I am.

I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that o...

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We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and ...

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Worrying about scarcity is our culture's version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we've bee...

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Brené BrownDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress...

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Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to wh...

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Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sus...

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I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.

I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy w...

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I didn't start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my da...

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... A lobotomy involved some kind of rod or probe inserted through the eyesocket,the term was always...

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We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

Symptoms of chronic stress are feelings of fragmentation and of chasing after time - of not being ab...

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Desmond TutuThe Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you're doing, you become st...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

A mind that is racing over worries about the future or recycling resentments from the past is ill eq...

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Eknath EaswaranTake Your Time: The Wisdom of Slowing Down

I remember the first pangs of stress arriving at the end of school. Once I graduated I had to get a ...

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The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think o...

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In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our heart...

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Fred RogersThe World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

My diet, my regime, the whole life I have on the road has always got that little bit of stress becau...

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We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that oth...

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Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest – sometimes with ex...

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George FriedmanThe Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like

I began my studies with eagerness. Before me I saw a new world opening in beauty and light, and I fe...

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Helen KellerThe Story of My Life: With Her Letters (1887 1901) and a Supplementary Account of Her Education Including Passages from the Reports and Letters of Her Teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan by John Albert Macy

There are times when I long to sweep away half the things I am expected to learn; for the overtaxed ...

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Helen KellerThe Story of My Life: With Her Letters (1887 1901) and a Supplementary Account of Her Education Including Passages from the Reports and Letters of Her Teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan by John Albert Macy

Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the su...

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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and...

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Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.

...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present t...

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No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still ...

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A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather ...

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I asked long ago,'What must I do to be saved?' The Scripture answered, 'Keep the commandments, belie...

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I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress...

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