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"I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrire than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue." »Alexander Meigs Haig
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"Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour." »Stephen Butler Leacock
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"Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue." »Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
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"Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus." »Walter Stegner
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"It was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It was as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you." »Ernest Rutheford
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"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous." »Shana Alexander
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"The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important." »Milo Bloom
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"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." »Bertrand Russell
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"You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive." »Thomas Arnold Bennett
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"If you ever feel like you're on the verge of a nervous breakdown, just follow these simple rules First, calm down second, come over and wash my car third, shine all my shoes. There, isn't that better" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness." »Carl Rogers
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"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue." »Henry James
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"When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion." »Albert Einstein
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"Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters." »M. F. K. Fisher
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"Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul." »Alice James
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"Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt." »Charles H. Mayo
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"I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us." »Walt Whitman
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"One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: "Have no anxiety about the morrow"; or the words of Sir William Osler; "Live in day-tight compartments." »Dale Carnegie
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"I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture." »Sidney Madwed
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