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“I have a condition called Menieres disease which is a problem with fluid retention in the inner ear. It has four symptoms: ringing in the ear, pressure in the ear, fluctuating hearing loss, and attacks of vertigo.”

Problem Loss Four Conditions Disease Ears Pressure Hearing Symptoms Fluid Retention Hearing Loss Vertigo

Author:Katie Leclerc

“Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss, to get through grief. But how long do you grieve for a husband of fifty years, a teenager killed in a car accident, a four-year-old child: a year? Five years? Forever? The loss happens in time, in fact in a moment, but its aftermath lasts a lifetime.”

“A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium.”

Firsts Wells States Moments Light Would Be Action Loss Negative Pressure Suggestions Equilibrium Right Moment Rudders Negative Actions

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I think that they have.”

Thinking Reason Asks Nations Loss Moral Morality Pressure Barbarians

Author:Barbara Tuchman

“The universal social pressure upon women to be all alike, and do all the same things, and to be content with identical restrictions, has resulted not only in terrible suffering in the lives of exceptional women, but also in the loss of unmeasured feminine values in special gifts. The Drama of the Woman of Genius has too often been a tragedy of misshapen and perverted power.”

Suffering Values Social Loss Special Genius Terrible Drama Universal Tragedy Pressure Feminine Exceptional Restriction Identical Social Pressure Special Gifts

Book:Woman's Share in Social Culture

Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture

“Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the grinding span, The blame of loss, or murder, Is laid upon the man. Not on the Stuff - the Man!”

Men Stuff Loss He Man Materials Bears Murder Pressure Blame Shock Aviation Load Great Aviation Let Down

Book:The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)

Source: The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)

“As the titanic losses were racking up, Fannie Mae's operators, Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorelick, disguised the catastrophe by orchestrating a $5 billion accounting fraud - all the while continuing to pressure banks to make absurd, politically correct loans and denouncing Republicans as enemies of the poor.”

Loss Poor Enemy Republican Pressure Billions Absurd Fraud Continuing Catastrophe Loan Accounting Franklin Politically Correct Jamie Operators Mae

Author:Ann Coulter

“The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.”

Ifs Way Helping Loss Cases Protect Pressure Suits Emergencies Astronaut Entry Protect You Parachutes Space Shuttle Re Entry

Author:Sally Ride

“In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.”