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The busiest man needs no more hours of rest than the idler.
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The American over-tension and jerkiness and breathlessness and intensity and agony of expression are primarily social, and only secondarily physiological, phenomena.
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the great thing in all education is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy
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Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives usually far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
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Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake.
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Most of us continue living unnecessarily near our surface.