A Quote by Sax Rohmer

There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity.

Sax Rohmer

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Sax Rohmer
English - Novelist
February 15, 1883 - June 1, 1959

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Deepak Chopra

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Deepak Chopra

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

Scott McNealy

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you THINK or IMAGINE to be 'true.

Maxwell Maltz

When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other.

Rudolf Arnheim

Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.

Ada Lovelace

The key is the Internet. The United States is by far the most advanced country in this new digital culture, so we have to be there. The Internet is the heart of this new civilization, and telecommunications are the nervous system, or circulatory system.

Carlos Slim

Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.

Erica Jong

Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious.

Pete Domenici

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Oliver Goldsmith

Confession can be good for the soul, but it can exact a heavy toll on friendships.

C.D. Payne

The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness.

Tennessee Williams

There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.

Charles Babbage

How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.

Mahatma Gandhi

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