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under stress

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People always like to hear that they're under stress, makes them feel better. You can imagine what they'd feel if they were told they weren't under stress. Donald Barthelme

I always feel that how people treat animals is not too far from how people treat each other, especially under stress or under certain circumstances... Yiyun Li

I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort. Don Young

I am greedy. I eat under stress. When you are eating, the rest of the world is tuned out. And when you tune back in you feel guilty about having been greedy and the rest of the world is still there, so you have to carry on eating! Nigella Lawson

Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations. Cofer Black

The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers. Harvey Cushing

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