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Letter "N" » nervous
«I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous I know I'm going to have a good show.»
«In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.»
«Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.»
Author: Dave Foreman
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About:
Environment,
Nature,
Problems
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Keywords:
Cancer,
central,
central nervous system,
environmental,
hubris,
imagining,
nervous,
originate,
originate in,
The central
«It's a nervous work. The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid of.»
«One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.»
«I was like: I'm going to ask her [Julia Roberts] out but I'm going to be very nervous about it. Then she said yes, I got even more nervous.»
«In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.»
Author: Susan Sontag
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Activist,
Critic,
Writer)
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Keywords:
amounts,
conformable,
instances,
interpretation,
interpreting,
manageable,
nervous,
Philistine,
reducing,
refusal,
tames
«I always get nervous when people start talking about legacies.»
«Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
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Novelist)
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Keywords:
ambition,
avarice,
cruelty,
fluid,
fluids,
founded,
lends,
lust,
lust after,
nervous,
revenge,
supports
«It [baseball] will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.»
Author: Walt Whitman
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Poet)
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About:
Baseball
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Keywords:
blessing,
doors,
dyspeptic,
larger,
losses,
nervous,
out-of-door,
out of doors,
oxygen,
relieve,
repair,
tend