"Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment."
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"Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything."
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"It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs."
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"The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice opinions no one wants to hear . . ."
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"Hell is the inability to love."
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"To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is."
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"Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much."
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"Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art."
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"The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way."
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"The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment."
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"The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things."
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"There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light."
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"There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe."
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"Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices."
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"The inability to lie is far from the love of truth."
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"All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room."
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"There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief."
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"I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words."
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"Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue."
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"The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual."
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