"The only question I am inclined to turn aside as being impossible to respond to happens to be the one most often raised these days, not just by my biologist friends but by everyone: how to avoid stress, prevent stress, allay stress.
I refuse to have anything to do with this matter, having made up my mind, from everything I have read or heard about it in recent years, that what people mean by stress is simply the condition of being human, and I will not recommend any meddling with that by medicine or any other profession."
-Lewis Thomas, M.D. (Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony)
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