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"Inflation is a force of pressure. If the socioeconomic system of a country is open and democratic, the pressure will dissipate via elections and peaceful change of government. On the other hand, if the system is closed, it might be able to contain the pressure for a while, but the pressure will continue to build up and at a certain point it will exceed the strength of the system causing it to crack. Rulers who learn from history and create a socioeconomic system that is open will achieve stability and continuity. Those who fight against these socioeconomic forces may win some battles in the short term, but they will lose the war." »Med Jones
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"There's no pressure in baseball. pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table." »Charlie Manuel
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"pressure? This is just a football match. When you do not know how to feed your children, that is pressure." »Jose Luis Chilavert, Goal keeper for Paraguay, said during France 98 World Cup (soccer/football)
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"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this." »Blaise Pascal, quoted by Rebecca West in BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON: A JOURNEY THROUGH YUGOSLAVIA, 1940
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"Grace under pressure." »Ernest Hemingway
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"No pressure, no diamonds." »Mary Case
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"Courage is grace under pressure." »Ernest Hemingway
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"[What is the definition of guts?] Grace under pressure." »Ernest Hemingway
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"Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within." »Jose Ortega y Gasset
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"Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure." »Babe Didrikson
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"I am not in a hurry, I can wait ten years. We are under no pressure whatsoever." »David Ben-Gurion
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"The best holistic remedy for high blood pressure is a purring cat on your lap." »Kathrine Palmer Peterson, 516 Sensational Cat Quotes
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"In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from." »Peter Ustinov
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"Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it." »Albert Smith
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"The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste." »Joseph Farrell
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"No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive." »Joyce Brothers
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"He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden." »Plato
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"Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures." »Vince Lombardi
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"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume." »Noam Chomsky
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"Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do." »Albert Einstein
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"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. -- (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.)" »John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
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"When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil." »Dale Carnegie
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"If you sincerely desire a _truly_ well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty". You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, _no matter what_. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the _telepathic pressure alone_ of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well- grounded in consensus reality." »Rev. Ivan Stang - High Weirdness By Mail
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"From a psychological point of view, when people go under pressure in life, be it economically or otherwise, they seek support from the people closest to them, usually religious or ethnic groups. They also start blaming other groups who have more control over the national resources. If the gap of power is wide, this will eventually create deep divisions in the nation. The divisions can take on new forms of conflict such as class warfare, ethnic, religious, political unrest and sometime civil war. The only effective protection against national divisions is an open socioeconomic system with a large and growing middle class" »Med Jones
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