"Stress is not a state of mind... it's measurable and dangerous, and humans can't seem to find their off-switch."

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Robert M. Sapolsky

#Stress Quotes #Mind Quotes #States Quotes

“One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.”
“The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.”
“The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class.”

Source : Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl
“Without his mate to share his life, he was but a screen for events and circumstances to pass through. He was npt even empty, for he was no vessel to hold even the thinnest of air. He lived, though was not truly alive”
“It's fun to act, but for me, it's more fun to actually create the character and act it out knowing that I know everything about this character. That's more fun to me than just reading lines.”

Source : Interview with Tony Farinella, 411mania.com. February 8, 2013.
“I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.”
“Funny thing about those Middle Ages, said Joseph. "They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they're in Modern Times, you know, they get all this neat technology and pass all these humanitarian laws, and then something happens: there's an economic crisis, or science makes some discovery people can't deal with. And boom, people go right back to burning Jews and selling pieces of the true Cross. Don't you ever make the mistake of thinking that mortals want to live in a golden age. They hate thinking.”

Source : Kage Baker (2005). “In the Garden of Iden”, p.217, Macmillan
“We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong.”

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