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Complete freedom from stress is death.

Hans Selye

Indeed, not all attacks-especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin-are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.
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Assumption Attack Faith Goodness Kind Offering Policy Purpose
The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.
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Basic Element Herself Research Smile
Complete freedom from stress is death.
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Complete Death Freedom One Liner Stress
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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Adopt Attitude Negative Oneself Positive Right Stress
If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions .
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Contribution Focus Life Live
Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.
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Avoid Exercise Food Man Stress Try
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
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Kill Ourselves Reaction Stress
My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.
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Advice Beginning Career Mindset Person Prejudice Young
Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
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Old Organism Play Scars Stress Survive
To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for.
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Goal Health Proud Purpose Respect Work
Stress, in addition to being itself, was also the cause of itself, and the result of itself.
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Being Reason Result Stress
Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.
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Achievement Defeat Failure Greatness Past Yourself
The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.
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Best Build Drive Necessary Race
Gratitude conserves the vital energies of a person more than any other attitude tested.
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Attitude Energy Gratitude Person Test
Leaders are leaders only as long as they have the respect and loyalty of their followers.
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Follow Leadership Loyalty Respect
The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.
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Amazement Faculty Lose Science True

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