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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

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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

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Violence
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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

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Learning
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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

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Smoking
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Of the power of mind, over body… I have seen some striking instances, and can safely affirm, that mental agitation is a strong, predisposing cause of disease. – “An intelligent correspondent,” quoted by Georg Ernst Stahl (1659–1734), q

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Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness. – Hans Selye

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If youre not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably dont have the expectations of yourself that you should have. – Hale Irwin

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Stress

Stress is something that we are not always conscious of; it can exist on a cellular level and hide, masked by our ingrained insensitivity. – Garri Garripoli, Qigong: Essence of the Healing Dance

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Stress

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Ive always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. Hes retired now. My brother is a lawyer. – Scott Bakula

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Painting is easy when you dont know how, but very difficult when you do. – Edgar Degas

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