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Quote by Russell Hoban
When you suffer an attack of nerves youre being attacked by the ne

When you suffer an attack of nerves youre being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? – Russell Hoban

Other quotes by Russell Hoban

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you dont make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life. – Russell Hoban

Category:
Violence
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Russell Hoban
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But when I dont smoke I scarcely feel as if Im living. I dont feel as if Im living unless Im killing myself. – Russell Hoban

Category:
Smoking
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Russell Hoban
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If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. – Russell Hoban

Category:
Learning
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Russell Hoban
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Other Quotes from
Stress
category

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. – Aesop, Fables

Category:
Stress

The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life. – Robert Maclver

Category:
Stress

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. – George MacDonald

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Stress

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace. – Milan Kundera

Category:
Stress

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Doing a great job and not meeting the customers objectives is as useless as doing a poor job within the customers objectives. – Thomas Faranda

Category:
Customer Service / Sales

Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more. – Sharon Stone

Category:
Business

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. – John Keats

Category:
Death

The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesnt believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people. – Ken Mehlman

Category:
Marriage