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• Poseidon’s trident was also all over the place, since Peter the Great wanted to stress Russia’s sea power. I especially like the trident on top of an obelisk -- what a great Egyptian/Greek mix up!

  Rick Riordan

  Sea, Russia, Greek

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• I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.

  R. C. Sproul

  Bridges, Numbers, Want

  R. C. Sproul (2003). “Running the Race: A Graduate's Guide to What's Important in Life”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the sleepers. ‘But it won’t - that’s the devil,’ he added in the same undertone.

  Virginia Woolf

  Thinking, Devil, Sides

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1697, Delphi Classics

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• Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.

  Ann Voskamp

  Joy, Way, Sin

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• t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.

  Charles Bukowski

  Madness, Daily Life, Disappointing

  Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

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• Indeed we have great reason to rejoice. If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like rejoicing, then perhaps now is a good time to refocus on what matters most. Strength comes not from frantic activity but from being settled on a firm foundation of truth and light. It comes from placing our attention and efforts on the basics of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. It comes from paying attention to the divine things that matter most.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, What Matters, Light

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• Sometimes, to relieve stress, he would soak his feet in the toilet, a practice that was not as soothing for his collegues.

  Walter Isaacson

  Motivational, Practice, Feet

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts to extreme stress.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Tunnels, Vision, Sound

  Malcolm Gladwell (2006). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.168, Penguin UK

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• In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.

  Douglas Adams

  Giving, Tiny, Moments

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

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• In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can become a noun, an act a thing. To refuse, to insist on saying no to what you believe is wrong, becomes at a stroke refuse, an insurmountable pile of garbage.

  Ian Mcewan

  Believe, Opportunity, Verbs

  Ian McEwan (1999). “Amsterdam”

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• Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often a kind of symmetry: the more intense the stress and the more hopeless the situation, the more fabulous the coming times that are anticipated.

  Robert Wright

  Way, Fabulous, Anticipation

  Robert Wright (2010). “The Evolution Of God: The origins of our beliefs”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I've never been a purely linear thinker. You can see it in my rhymes. My mind is always jumping around, restless, making connections, mixing and matching ideas, rather than marching in a straight line. That's why I'm always stressing focus. My thoughts chase each other from room to room in my head if I let them, so sometimes I have to slow myself down.

  Jay-Z

  School, Jumping, Ideas

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.206, Random House Group

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• I’ve lost someone, too,” he reminded her. “It’s not the same!” She squeezed the bridge of her nose, trying to stifle her tears. “I was so mean to him. I quit the piano! I blamed him for everything, and I didn’t say more than a few words to him for three years! Three years! And I can’t get those years back. But maybe if I hadn’t been so angry, he might not have gotten sick. Maybe I caused that extra… stress that did all this. Maybe it was me!

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mean, Years, Bridges

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• Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Thinking, Light, Naps

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• No one can create negativity or stress within you. Only you can do that by virtue of how you process your world.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Negativity, World

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 18, 2010

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• Even bipolar vampires needed sleep from time to time, and he was well past his recommended safe dosage of stress.

  Rachel Caine

  Sleep, Past, Bipolar

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn: The Morganville Vampires”, p.73, Penguin

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• But you should know the love can wear away under the stress of being married. Someone you think you love now, you might start to hate when he couldn't take care of your children, it'd be even worse. Love doesn't always survive under those circumstances.

  Kiera Cass

  Children, Hate, Thinking

  Kiera Cass (2014). “The Selection Series 3-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Prince, The Guard”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• The ties that bind us are stronger than the occasional stresses that separate us.

  Colin Powell

  Ties, Stronger, Occasional

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• Avoiding problems doesn't make them go away - you think it does, but it really doesn't. They're just postponed. Those problems just stay inside your subconscious and brew until your body gets to a point where it's had enough and decides to release some of the stress itself. That's what an anxiety attack is! It happens when you don't know how to vent your frustration, fears, stress, sadness, madness, whatever it is that bothers you, the things you should be confronting and getting closure with. If you don't confront these things and deal with them, your body does it for you.

  Sully Erna

  Sadness, Thinking, Frustration

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• Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

  David Allen

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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• Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?

  Ann Voskamp

  Thanksgiving, Worry, Soul

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• The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I alwas identify with the roaring of the diamond wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you've seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth.

  Jack Kerouac

  Blood, Silence, Roaring

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.157, Penguin

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• Everything you’ve told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, you’ve generated personal failure, because you can’t do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source can’t be pin-pointed.

  David Allen

  Thinking, Two, Mind

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• The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Peace, Travel

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• When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Anger, Relief, Internet

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.73, Random House

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