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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

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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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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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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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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. – Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward. – Spanish Proverb

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Stress

Like steam from a cup of hot tea that fogs our glasses, false urgency of matters at hand blurs our vision to important things in the distance. – Terri Guillemets

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Stress

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Good leaders make people feel that theyre at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. – Warren G. Bennis

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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. – Mark Twain, letter to Edward Dimmit, 1901 July 19th

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I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think its in our unity that well have the greatest strength. – Woody Harrelson

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