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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»
«The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.»
«The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.»
«Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.»
Author: Thomas De Quincey
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beverage, beverages, coarse, nervous, ridiculed, sensibilities
«The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.»
Author: Havelock Ellis
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height, nervous, population, prevalence, snapped, snapping, snaps, snap at, tension, utmost, winding, windings
«The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Computers
| Keywords:
central, central nervous system, clothing, computer system, extension, hoop, hoops, hula-hoop, hula, nervous, technological, The wheel, wheel
«The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
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block, excitement, inability, nervous, regimes, strain, straining, stumbling, The Spiritual, totalitarian, totalitarian state