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• I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Believe, Eye, Society

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• Some day there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the military services and who will have little understanding of where slashes in their estimates can be made with little or no damage. If that should happen while we still have the state of tension that now exists in the world, I shudder to think of what could happen in this country

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Country, Military, Men

  Letter to Everett E. ("Swede") Hazlett, as quoted in "Eisenhower the President" (1981) by William Bragg Ewald, Jr., p. 248, August 20, 1956.

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• Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.

  Carl Sagan

  Psychology, Independence, Metaphor

  Carl Sagan (2012). “Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence”, p.83, Ballantine Books

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• I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses.

  Jimmy Connors

  Real, Kissing, Hug

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• If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving?

  Andrea Dworkin

  Book, Recipes, Release

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• The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow from which every arrow of moral action flies.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Arrows, Religion, Depth

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2012). “An Interpretation of Christian Ethics”, p.8, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.

  Joan Didion

  Believe, August, People

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.30, Zola Books

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• If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells you that God so loved you that He gave His Son to die for you, nothing but good manners will keep you from being amused.

  Oswald Chambers

  Son, Good Man, Problem

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• There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.

  Gregory Bateson

  Strong, Believe, Energy

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• A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.

  Karl Abraham

  Morning, Expectations, Anxiety

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis”, p.197, Karnac Books

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• Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.

  Harold Evans

  America, Groups, Individual

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• We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Wise, Soul, Break

  Elizabeth Prentiss (1876). “Stepping Heavenward, and Aunt Jane's hero”, p.56

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• I understood that the teacher was not eing dismissive, that the problem would be addressed. But, without extra upset. A noncombative response, the Buddha taught, assures that pain does not become suffering. And, unclouded by the tension of struggle, the mind is able to assess clearly and respond wisely.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Teacher, Pain, Struggle

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• Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear - these things start to retreat. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away is money in the bank. When you're suffering you can't create.

  David Lynch

  Hate, Stress, Negativity

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• All your clear and pleasing sentences will fall apart if you don't keep remembering that writing is linear and sequential, that logic is the glue that holds it together, that tension must be maintained from one sentence to the next and from one paragraph to the next and from one section to the next, and that narrative - good old-fashioned storytelling - is what should pull your readers along without their noticing the tug.

  William Zinsser

  Fall, Writing, Together

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• To follow Jesus doesn't remove us from the stuff of life. It is not resolution. It is tension and journey.

  Crowder

  Jesus, Journey, Stuff

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• In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by the pleasure principle. We believe, that is to say, that the course of those events is invariably set in motion by an unpleasurable tension, and that it takes a direction such that its final outcome coincides with a lowering of that tension that is, with an avoidance of unpleasure or a production of pleasure.

  Sigmund Freud

  Believe, Taken, Principles

  Sigmund Freud (1955). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters

  Julio Cortazar

  Stories, Jazz, Beats

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• I've never seen a professor of religion on television before, and I thought that was fascinating. The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation.

  Tim Daly

  Creative, Television, World

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• All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that define the process, so I love it all.

  David Hayter

  Boredom, Levels, Size

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• White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Light, Order, White

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• There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension.

  Hal Borland

  Pace, Matter, Leisure

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• Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the material and the spiritual, the thinglike and its transcendence in thought. A culture that is merely sensuous and that denies the activity of the mind within sensuous materials risks becoming pornographic.

  Julian Johnson

  Spiritual, Odds, Risk

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• Obama is now fighting for his life. He's fighting for a federal government. I believe in a federal government. I hope it sticks around. We had the American Revolution. There was this whole tension between the federalists and the anti-federalists. Then we had the Civil War. We had Lincoln fighting for it. And the secessionists were there. And we have the same issue today.

  Oliver Stone

  War, Believe, Fighting

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• Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.

  Alain Ducasse

  Religious, Political, Chocolate

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