"Complete freedom from stress is death"

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Source : hans selye (1974). “stress without distress”

Hans Selye

“Do I have more depth than I'm given credit for? No!”

Source : "The name's Norton. Graham Norton" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2007.
“A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery.”
“Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.”

Source : "Desire". The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Website, www.lds.org. April 2011.
“I don't usually set personal goals.”
“The manager administers; the leader innovates.”
“When Julian ascended the throne, he declared his impatience to embrace and reward the Syrian sophist, who had preserved, in a degenerate age, the Grecian purity of taste, of manners and of religion. The emperor's prepossession was increased and justified by the discreet pride of his favourite.”
“To those who ask if I have read their book, I reply: I have not yet read Homer.”
“K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.”

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